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MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1899.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather to-trier
Ins elect from the four - winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat. 24: 31.
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So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Bze. 34: 12. Jet 32: 39.
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meat ( Jno. 12: 48), and of course they will
be condemned by it. Jas. 2: 10. • Hence we
find that it depends upon the choice that
the people make, and what kind of life
they live in this world, where they will
spend ETERNITY.
I was talking with a man ( predestinarian)
since I have been preaching the gospel, and
I asked him to come to meeting. He said
he would if it was the right kind. I told.
him I was preaching nothing but gospel.
Says he, " I know you; you are one of those
fellows that teach people that they can live
without sin." ( Not the right kind for
him.) I told him the Bible taught the
same and he remarked that his Bible said
that " man is born to sin, as the sparks fly
upward." And he looked about half an
hour, with a complete concordance to
assist him, and. then got angry because he
could not find it. He was_ one of those
hardened fellows. Some may ask, Why?
It is because he would not believe the truth,
but took pleasure in sin; and wanted to
find. something to justify himself in the
same. Therefore, God just let him and the
devil ( his father) fix up that delusion for a
refuge. And he declared to the last that it
was in the Bible somewhere. Nearly all
who make a hobby of " election," are gen-erally
ready to picture some ( unknown) route
to heaven by the way of six.
" We have made a covenant with death
[ for the wages of sin is death], and with
hell are we at agreement; when the over-flowing
scourge shall pass through [ they
think] it shall not come - unto us; for we
[ are the elect] have made lies [ Satan's
scripture] our refuge, and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves."- Isa. 28 15.
But, praise God! when judgment is laid
to the line, and. righteousness ( not sin) to
the plummet, the hail ( God's word) shall
sweep away the refuge of lies ( home- made
scripture), and. the water shall overflow the
hiding- places. Ver. 17.
Men love darkness rather than light
[ truth and righteousness], because their
deeds are evil. For every one that doeth
evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Rua 3: 19, 20. Hence, we can see that by
the preaching of the gospel, people reject
it, and thereby become hardened.
The preaching of the gospel is ordained
of God. Mark 16: 15, 16; 1 Cor. 9: 14, 16.
In that sense God hardens people's hearts,
because every time a person hears the gospel
preached, and refuses to obey it, he gets
more haid- hearted. But each one has
power to receive and believe the truth. 1
Jno. 3: 23; Heb. 11: 6; Jas. 1: 22. There-fore,
through love for sin, and not willing
to comply with the terms of the gospel, and
be saved, they are " hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin." Hence, they are
responsible for themselves.
Of all the hardened people in the world,
the " HARDSRTILLED PREDESTLITARIANS"
are the hardest that I have ever met. Some
call them hard- heads,. but I think . hard-hearts
would be more appropriate, as they
will not believe the truth. " Ye hypocrites,
well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
" This people draweth nigh unto me with
their mouth, and honoreth me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me. But
in vain they do worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men."-
Matt. 16: 7, 9.
Some _ say they were saved more than
eighteen hundred years ago, and still sin-ning
every day; and declare that they can
not do any better. They are surely looking
for help from the wrong source. " I can do all
' things through Christ, which strengtheneth
me."- Phil. 4: 13. Praise Ms narae! He
saves, us from our sins. Matt. 1: 21. Saves
" to the uttermost that come unto God by'
him."- Heb. 7: 26. His blood cleanseth
us from all sin. 1 Jno. 1: 7. " We axe
more' than conquerors through him that
loved us."- Rom. 8: 37. " Well," say some,
" THE BIBLE TEACHES ELECTION."
Very well; ; believe in election myself,
as the Bible teaches-" elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto OBEDI-ENCE,
and sprinkling of the bloodabf Jesus
Christ." - 1 Pet. 1: 2. But say this har-dened
class of people, " We are elected ac-cording
to the foreknowledge of God."
This we admit: God foreknew and foreor-dained
a plan of salvation, and the provi-sions
have been made, through which all men
can be elected, or saved, if they would Only
meet the requirements of God, and accept
his offered mercies. Each individual has
power to make his own choice. Jesus tasted
death for every man. Heb. 2: 9. And
God " commanded all men everywhere to
repent."- Acts 17: 30. Jesus says, " - Ply-cept
ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."
- Luke 13: 3, 5. " Whosoever will," etc.
But the people ( the hardened ones) say,
" We can not unless God gives us the will."
Very true; God gives us life, breath, will, and
all things ( Jas. 1: 17); and. gives every man
power to exercise his own will as it pleases
himself, and commands him to make his
choice. Den*. 30: 19. Jesus says, Come
unto me, all. Matt. 11: 28. God says,
Turn and live. Rzek. 18: 32. Peter says,
Make your [ own] calling and election sure
( 2 Pet. 1: 10) by complying with the require-ments
of God. It is every man's privilege.
Praise the Lord ! Jesus says, " Whosoever
heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise Man. .
. . And every one that heareth these sayings
of mine and doeth them not, shall be liken-ed
unto a foolish man."- Matt.
What kind of a God would it be to say,
" Choose," " Come," " Whosoever will,"
" Repent, all, or perish," and even call the:
people fools if they do not come, and atthe
same time knowing that he had arranged a
plan so they could not come, if they wanted
to do so ever so much? Shame on the dean '
and any man that will try to put such ' a
delusion on the people, and call it preach-/'
ing the gospel of Christ! 0 ye blind guideal
of all the foolish, thou art the most ignot:
rant. " For they being ignorant of God's''
righteousness, and going about to estalilish-:
ttheir own . righteousness [ sin], have not-submitted
themselves to the righteousneee'
[ salvation] of God."- Rom. 10: 3.
While it is a fact that can not be denied"
that every man has power to make his ofrit'
choice, and each individual can make hite
( own) election sure by Complying with : the- 1
terms of the gospel, yet it is -
" NOT OF HMI THAT WILLETH,:'
nor of him that runneth, but [ salvatia]
of God, that showeth mercy."- Rom. 9 a6
" Not by works of righteousness . Whiekare°
have done, but according to his" metT
saved us, by the washing - of regeneragOn
and renewing of the Holy Ghost."
3: 6. " Their righteousness inklisai
the Lord [ not of man]."- Isa. Vert .
" Might be partakers of his holiness."-- 4tebi
12: 10. " Judah , hath profaned tlielhoriiielki°
of the Lord which lie loved."- MaL
Salvation does not come from the priest,
preacher, as some may suppose; andt le
not of man, neither did we receive it by
man, but by the revelation of Jesus Clariii141
( Gal. 1: 12; Rom. 1: 16), and by the 1i ' wee
of God through faith. Matt. 28 : 184s1inktVW
1: 68- 75; Heb. 7: 25; 1 Pet. 1 : 5 ; Jude' 11-
Hence, it is of God, and not of ( him that
hath the will to receive it) man.
this is a
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by Satan and his followers, and intended to
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and rlasniare their souls in this
net, and drag them down to a never- ending
lake of tire.
Now, let us notice a few texts of scrip-ture,
proving that every man is a free moral
agent, and haa power given him to make
his own choice. .
Josh. 24: 15-" Choose re this day, whom
ye will serve." Dela. 30 : 15.-" See I have
set before thee this day ' life and good, and
death and evil." David said ( Ps. 119: 30),
" I have chosen the way of truth." Jesus
la " the way, the trutli, and the life." Jno.
14: 6. " The Lord is not willing that any
should perish."- 2 Pet. 3: 9. " Come unto
me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest."- Matt. 11-: 28.
" And the Spirit and the bride [ church]
8/ 14 Come. And let him that heareth say,
a6osta e. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely [ God will not hinder
any one.]."- Rev. 22: 17. " Fear not, for
behold, I bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people. "- Luke
: 2: 10. " I call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, that I have set before
you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed may live."-- Deut. 30: 19.
All these, and many other places show
Plainly that every man has a chance, if be
would only eamply with the terms, and
accept the offered mercies of God.
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tsr ouep, lawine , find other scriptures that
and many people trying to
pry into things that do not concern them,
wrest ( twist) such scriptures to their own
destruction. 2 Pet. 3: 16. I am willing to
admit that there are a few texts that seem to
teach that certain ones were hardened, and
could not be saved, etc. But we find by
searching carefully, that there was . always
a reason on their part that caused it to be
so. All who know the Lord, know him to
be a God of truth. Jer. 10: 10; Jno. 17: 17.
" Yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar."- Rom. 3 : 4. " His judgments are
according to truth."- Rom. 2: 2. There-fore,
let us not barter our time away trying
to learn something that does not concern
our soul's salvation, but suffice it to know
that there is no lie of ( in) the truth ( God's
word). 1 Jno. 2: 21. And it is impossible
for God to lie. Titus 1: 2; Heb. 6: 18. Then
let us be sure that we do not explain some-thing
" hard to be understood" ( 2 Pet. 3: 16),
in such a way as to make it contradict some
plain declarations in other places, thereby
making a lie in the word of God.
There is no doubt that God fully intended
to have a holy people ( Dent. 7: 6), even
before he made man. " Rath chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy, and without blame before
him in love."- Eph. 1: 4. He created man
holy-" in his own likeness"- in the begin-ning.
Gen. 1: 27. And since the fall he
has arranged a plan whereby we can be
redeemed, bought back and made holy
again. ha. 35; Luke 1: 73- 75. All this
proves that God fully intended to have a
Ii ely people, even from the beginning. 2
Thess. 2: 13. But I never saw a predestina-rian-
so- called - yet, that had salvation,
and it seems that there must - be something
wrong and deceptive in their doctrine;
because the doctrine ( gospel) of Christ
saves people when they believe and obey it.
Rom. 1: 10; 6: 17, 18. Therefore, anything
that will not save people from sin is not the
doctrine of Christ, but of men and the
devil. Titus 1: 14; 1 Tim. 4: 1, 2.
WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETEC.
Rom. 9 : 18-" Therefore hath he mercy on
whom he will have mercy, and whom he
will he hardeneth." This, and a few other
similar texts, they ( predestinarians) use as
part of a foundation to base their delusion
upon. Now read Heb. 3 : 7- 13,--" Wherefore,
as the Holy Ghost saith, To- day, if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your [ own]
hearts," etc. How do people harden their
hearts? Ans.-" Lest any of you be har-dened
through the deceitfulness of sin.."-
Ver. 13.
" And to whom sware he that they should
not enter into his rest, but to them that
beleived not? So we see that they could
not enter in because of unbelief."- Heb.
3: 18, 19. How does God harden peo-ple's
hearts? Ans.- 2 Thess. 2: 11, 12-
` And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie [ some false doctrine], that they all
might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness." So
we can see that they could not enter in ( be
saved) because of unbelief.,
Here we have two - texts by the same writer
( Paul), stating that sin and unbelief, or
love for sin and unrightecnisness, and none
for the truth, will harden people's hearts.
One text says that God did it, and the other
one- says, " Harden not your [ own] hearts."
But we see the real cause is sin, and unbe-lief,
which is the result of people rejecting
and disobeying the truth, and striving
against the Spirit of God, which is, indeed,
very dangerous. " All who reject the gos-pal
will have to meet the same in the judg-
The Rock, Christ.
Rock of Ages, standing fast
In the desert wild and vast;
Lifting up thy stately form
To the sunshine and the storm;
Changeless through all changing time,
Strong, impregnable, sublime!
Rock of Ages, let me hide
In thy deeply caverned side,
When the tempest rolls on high,
And the lightnings cleave the sky,
In the sweetness of repose,
There awhile mine eyes to close.
Rock of Ages, let me stand
On thy brow, serene and grand:
Thence to view the way I've come,
Thence to catch a glimpse of home-
Home, where toils and troubles cease,
And the soul finds perfect peace.
Sheltered there let me remain
Till the heavens grow bright again,
Rock of Ages, : et me rest
In th y shadow, when distressed
By the long and weary way,
Or the noontide's burning ray.- SELECTED.
Can We fall?
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how much they pray anti seek the Lord; if
they have not been tlt, t.. tol from the begin-ning,
they can not he saved. And it mat-teN
not how wieked a man may be, what
bloody crimes he may commit if he has
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THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Heb. 2: 1- 3-" Therefore, we ought to give
the more earnest heed to the things which
we have heard, lest at any time we should
let them slip. For if the word spoken by
angels was steadfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recompense
of reward: ROW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE
NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION?"
THOS. CARTER.
If this ( predestinarian) falsehood were
true, it would be difficult to learn who are
the most foolish, that kind of preachers or
the devil. According to their doctrine, God
has decreed from all eternity the exact
number that are saved, and the very individ-uals;
also just who must be lost in hell.
And those two classes are so fixed, that
they can not be increased or decreased by
any act of man. But here is the mystery
in my mind; those preachers are out trying
to get people saved, and to join something,
when at the same time, according to their
own teaching, they do not think that God
is giving any attention to them whatever.
And our adversary, the devil, as a roaring
lion also walketh about, seeking whom he
may devour. 1 Pet. 5 : 8. Yoa see the
devil thinks he can devour some that are
already elected, and the preachers ( poor fel-lows)
think by lectioneering a little they can
persuade God. to change his plan (?), and
elect a few more, and at the same time tell-ing
the people that their eternal destiny has
been. fixed ever since the foundation of the
world. Therefore they and the devil are
simply making fools of themselves, spending
their time in vain.
There is a weak place somewhere, and I
locate it in this devil- doctrine, for God's
word is true. Praise his holy name ! If I
believed such an unreasonable thing, I
would gg home and stay there, just what
every man ought to do that teaches such a
delusion of the devil.
" 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest
the prophets, and stonest them that are
sent unto thee! how often would I have
gathered thy children together, as a hen
doth gather her brood under her wings, and
ye would not!"- Luke 13: 34. " He came
unto his own [ the Jews], and his own re-ceived
him not. But as many as received
him [ did not harden their hearts], to them
gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe [ through the
truth- Jno. 17: 17, 20] on his name."-
Jno. 1: 11, 12. Jesus would have saved
them all, but they would not let him.
But some say, " We do not think we can
do anything unless God helps us:
WE ARE NOT SAVED RS: WORKS."
It is true, we are not saved by works, and
yet, we have something to tto, even before
being saved from sin. First, Cease to do
evil. Isa. 1: 16. Forsake evil ways. Isa.
55: 7. Restore. Ezek. 33: 14- 16. Forgive
others, if anything against them. Matt.
6: 14, 15. Be reconciled. Matt. 5: 23, 24.
Confess to God. 1 Jno. 1: 9; Prov. 28: 13.
Then ask, and ve shall receive. Matt. 7: 8.
Must also have faith in God. Mark 11: 22;
Heb. 11: 6. " For by grace are ye saved
through; faith, and that not of yourselves, it is
the gift of God. Not of works [ sacrifices,
etc. blest any man should boast. For we are
Iiia workmanship, created inChrist Jesus unto
good works, which God before ordained
that we should walk in them" ( good works
- Matt. 5: 14- 16).
While we can not be saved by works of
the law, that is, by beast offering, etc., as
though Christ had not come ( Heb. 9: 13,
14; 10 : 10; 13 : 12 ; Titus 3: 5), yet, God
hath so ordained that we should walk right.
Denying " ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly,
in this present world."- Tit. 2: 12. It is by
the grace of God that we are saved, but that
is received through faith, and it is impossi-ble
to believe to t, he saving of the soul with-out
complying. with the requirements of
God. Faith and works must go together.
God has made a covenant, or contract, and
has taken an oath ( Luke 1: 73- 75); therefore,
he will never fail on his part. If the people
will enter into this covenant which God has
made, and fulfill their part, their election
will be, sure. In this contract, God requires
both faith and works. Jas. 2: 14, 19, 20,
26-" What doth it profit, my brethren,
though a man, say he hath faith, and have
not works? can faith save him? Thou
believest that there is one God; thou. doest
well: the devils [ and sinners] also believe
and tremble. But wilt thou know, 0 vain
man, that faith without works [ obedience]
is dead? For as the body without the spirit
is dead, so faith without works is dead
also." -
A great manyepeople speak to us about
THE CLAY AND THE POTTER.
RM. 9: 21---" Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump, to make
one vessel unto honor, and another unto dis-honor?"
We are the clay, and God is the
potter. Come now, and let us go with
TT is a, well- known fact that the ambi-
4 tion of sectism in its present condition
is to reform. Men, who once in their
career enjoyed the glory and power of
God in their souls, and saw God work in
their church (?), now behold their mere-hers
as a valley of dry bones. They lift
up their voices and cry aloud, " Reform,
reform," but all in vain. The tide of
worldliness, and the numerous sinful and
cold professors have overwhelmed the
thing, and driven spirituality far, far
away. Formality, that proud, arrogant,
stiff- necked monster, is ruling with a
high hand, and the humble, meek, and
quiet spirit of Christ is not to be seen
at all.
Dear ones, are you dwelling in the
midst of such? Have you spent a good
portion of your life trying to reform
your church? You have undertaken a
hopeless task. You are living in a dis-pensation
of time in which the prophet
says, " Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,
and the cage of every unclean and hate-ful
bird. . . . And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto
heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities."- Rev. 18: 2- 5.
To reform sectism to the extent neces-sary
to meet the approbation of God
would be a thing impossible, providing all
would meet the conditions of God's
word; but this, then, indeed would put
an end to sectism itself. See 1 Cor.
14: 33. Alas! such a thing is not proba-ble.
One of their own prophets, a popu-lar
evangelist of denominationalism,
while beholding the cold, format,
worldly condition of sectism, recently
said, " Reform is not what we want.
We alter this and alter that; we reform
and reform, but are not bettered. What
we want is the Holy Spirit." To this
we agree. To receive the Holy Spirit
would indeed be a wonderful reforma-tion,
It would reform the multitudes of
stiff- necked creatures to humble ones,
the proud and arrogant to the meek
and lowly. It would change the con-tentions,
strifes, and divisions to peace,
love, and harmony; the outward worship
of formality and ceremonies to the in-ward
worship of Spirit and truth.
Dear reader, I am interested in von.
Let us take the word of God. Perhaps
you can get a ray of light concerning
the Holy Spirit. Have you been taught
that you could not get him now? Have
you been taught that you could have him,
but not taught how to get him? Have
you been taught the results of receiving
him? Let us examine the word of God
on these points. First you ask, " Can I
have the Holy Spirit?" I answer, " Re-pent,
and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the re-mission
of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost. For the prom-ise
is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even as many as
the . Lord our God shall call."- Acts
2: 38, 39. " And it shall come to pass
in the last days, saith God, I will pour
' out my Spirit upon all flesh."- Chap.
2: 17. The promise is to all. - What are
the conditions? Repentance. This is a
requisite to the reception of the Holy
Ghost.
Indeed this is the first of all our obli-gations
to God. " Repent and be bap
- tized," Peter says, " and ye shal receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost." This may
appear that baptism is essential to the
reception of the Holy Ghost. We be-lieve
people ought to be baptized ( in
water) in the name of the Lord Jesus as
soon as possible after repentance. But we
read in the Bible that God actually
poured out the Holy Ghost upon dome
even before they were baptized, and they
Jeremiah down to the potter's house, and
hear the word of the Lord.
Jer. 18 : 1- 6-" The word which came to
Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and
go down to- the potter's house, and there . I
will cause thee to hear my words. Then I
went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
And the vessel that he made of cla y was
marred in the hand of the potter. So he
made it [ the same lump] again, another
vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
it. Then the word of the Lord came unto
me, saying [ Here is the lesson;], 0 house of
Israel, can not I do with you [ make you
over again] as this potter? Saith the Lord,
Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand,
so are ye in mine hand, 0 house of Israel."
Now read verses 7- 12; also Gen. 6: 5- 9, and
the third and fourth chapters of Jonah.
We can see plainly that it depends greatly
upon the way the people live, and what they
do in this world, whether they are saved or
not. If they get spoiled ( marred) after God
creates them, he is able to make them over
again, for which he has made provisions in
the plan of salvation. And all that remains
is for men to put themselves into the hands
of God as the clay in the hands of the
potter.
" Lo, this only have I found, that God
hath made man upright; but they have
sought out many inventions [ have got
spoiled]."- Eccl. 7 : 29. The people have
gotten into such a marred, or ' spoiled, con-dition
that God has arranged a plan to re-generate,
or recreate them. Eph. 2: 10-
" For we are his workmanship, created
[ again] in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God bath before ordained, that we
should walk in them." " Therefore, if any
man be in Christ, he is [ made over] a new
creature [ creation], old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new."
- 2 Cor. 5: 17. " If a man therefore purge
himself from these, [ all sin and ungodliness
Cor. 7: 1; Titus 2: 12] he shall be a ves-sel
unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the
Master's use, and prepared [ not to sin, but]
unto every good work."- 2 Tim. 2: 21.
Now, let us conclude by noticing a few
texts showing that we must obey the word
of God. If we get him in our favor by
obeying him, we will be elected sure, be-cause
God is the majority. " If God be for
us, who can be against us?"- Rom. 8: 31.
" We are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth against them which com-mit
[ any kind of sin] such things. .. .
Who will render to every man according to
his deeds. To them who by patient continu-ance
in well- doing, seek for glory and
honor and immortality, eternal life. But
unto them that are contentious, and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath. Tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
evil; of the Jew first, and - also of the Gen-tile:
but glory, honor, and peace to every
man that worketh good; to the Jew first,
and also to the Gentile. Fon THERE LS NO
RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD. FOP as
many as have sinned without law shall
also perish without law; and. as many , as
have sinned in the law shall be judged by
the law [ and we which have the gospel shall
be ' judged by it- Jno. 12: 48.]; for not the
hearers of the law are just before God; but
the doers of the law [ of Christ] shall be
justified."- Rora. 2: 2, 6- 13. " But he that
doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong
which he bath done: AND THERE Is No
RESPECT OF PERSONS. "- Col. 3: 25.
Then Peter opened his month and said,
Of a truth I perceive that God is no re-specter
of persons, but in every nation he
that feareth him, and worketh righteous-ness,
is accepted of him."- Acts 10: 34, 35.
" Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God and keep his command-ments;
for this is the whole duty of man.",
- Ecel. 12: 13. " But be ye doers of the
Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves."- Jas. 1: 22. Read Rev. 22: 14;
2 Thess. 1: 6- 9; Titus 2: 11-" The grace of
God that bringeth salvation hath appeared
to all men." But this is false if God only
offers grace to save some men.
Need of the Holy Ghost.
BY O. 0. DODGE.
were baptized in water subseqently.
Read Acts 10: 47, 48.
The next thing after repentance is to
continue to obey God. " And we are
his witnesses of these things; and so is
also the Holy (+ host whom. God hath
given to them that obey him.- Acts
5: 32. Jesus says, " If ye love me, keep
my commandments. And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, . . . even the spirit of truth
[ or Holy Ghost] ; whom the world [ or
sinners] can not receive."- Jno. 14: 15,
17. We must repent and live in obedi-ence
to God, which entitles us to the gift
of the Holy Spirit. " If ye then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children: how much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask him."-- Luke
11 : 13. Since God is our Father, he is
willing and glad to give us his Holy
Spirit. To have him as our Father we
must be " born again" and lice as he
desires. " If we walk in the light, as
he is in the . . . the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin."- 1 Jinx 1: 7. Amen.
We have now answered two questions
concerning the Holy Spirit. Is it our
privilege to possess him now? Yes.
How shall we proceed to get him? Re-pent,
and live in obedience to God. If
\\- e do this, God will let us understand
that we need ; 111( 1 ought to have his Holy
Spirit,. Now the last and a very impor-tant
question is to be answered. What
will he ( the hol y Spirit) do for us when
we get him? In short, when we receive
the Ilolv Spirit, we are fully redeemed.
Our life is not actuated by Satan or self
but by the lIoly Spirit. " Your body is
the temple of the Iloly Ghost whieh is in
you, which ve have of t; od, and ye are
not your own."--- I Cor. When
We repent and are converted our outward
life is changed, our sins aro gone, and
we lead a ReW life. But, as many have-found,
there is a principle in their heart
Which troubles them. They feel " prone
to wander.
When you receive the baptism of the
Holy Ghost your inmost soul is renewed,
your very nature is chanot. Where
there were elements of prick,
strife, and envy there is now humility,
tenderness, concord, anti love. The
blessed " renewing of the Ifolv Ghost"
Titus 3: 5. If the so• ealled chureiles
would receive the Holy Spirit, where you
now see the arrogant look there would
be a look of love; where there is a sanc-timonious
look there would be one
peace and joy. In place of pomp and
costly array it would be an attire as
" becometh women professing godliness,"
that is, moderate, modest, free from gold,
or pearls, or costly array. 1 Tim. 2: 9.
In place of " my" church and " your"
church it would be God's church. In
place of a lively ambition to get people
to join it would be an earnest effort for
the salvation of souls. In place of mem-'
bers sitting stiff- necked and stiff- backed
in their seats listening to the preacher
go through a formal prayer, they would
be upon their knees communing with
God. Indeed the churches do need the
Holy Ghost. He renews us.
But now what more does he do? He
sanctifies us. " Oh, no," you say, h ` I
do not believe in sanctification." Per-haps
you have heard some ridiculous
story- about this. Did you ever investi-gate
this from a Bible standpoint? If
not, you ought to do so. Pant - tlie
apostle, gives us to understand that his
work, or the fruits of his labors among
the Gentiles was accepted of God, " be-ing
sanctified by the Holy Ghost."-
Rom. 15: 16. Peter called those who
were sanctified the " elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father
through sanctification of the Spirit."--- 1
Pet. 1: 2. The Holy Ghost also makes
us pure in heart, which is equivalent to
sanctification. " Giving them the Holy
Ghost, . . purifying their hearts by
fai th."- Acts 15: 8, 9. " Blessed are the
pure in heart; : for they shall see God." tifled believer in Jesus Christ; and
_ Matt- 5: 8. He being the Ray
Ghost, are told that it so interested the i
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of course he makes us holy. nha
Another thilisr, the Holy Spirit makes tdienstisr eodf thoe laovoekn i ntthoa tth eev en the ang
cuasl lp neortf ebce tp. eArfgeacitn.". ySotoup , S laeyt , u " sN reoa, s wone of man's redemption. gpreeta. tiny2s. ter
onBee myeo tnh eernetf. oJrees upse rsfaeicdt ( eMveant ta. s5 y: 48), anWd haennn oJeusnucse wda tsh biso rgnl othrieoyu csa emvee ndto
Felber which is in heaven is perfecotu." r Gsoomde humble shepherds among the hi
ii „ Judea, and with joyful lips prais
evidently meant we should have a od for his great salvation. Luke 2:
perfect heart, or, in other words, a pure 14. Next we find John the Baptist,
heart. If wt'.
wt'. have a pure heart, we can mighty prophet of the most high Go
attain to no higher state of purity; there- proclaiming this gospel and exhorti
fore our heart is perfect. And if our people to repent and believe on t
heart is perfect, our life will be perfect author and finisher of our salvation, a
as far as purity and righteous living is preparing people to receive the feline
concerned. We can " grow Ca grace and of the grace of God; and soon we he
knowledge," n
evertheless, and increase of him pointing Jesus out to his folio
in beauteous g races of this holy life. ers, and testifying that he is " the Lam
" The eyes of the Lord run to and fro of God, which taketh away the sin
hhtheimarrots ueisgl fh sotruotn tgh ein w behhoallef eoaf rtthhe, m to w shhooswe theJ ewsuosr lhdi. m"- sJenlfo . s p1e: n2t9 o. ver three yea perfect toward him."- 2 Ohron. amid trials, temptations, dangers, and
t; " Ile Bath perfected forever them persecutions, to teach us about salvation
that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy and he did hundreds of the most wonde
(, host also is a wit ness."- Heb. 10: 14,15. ful miracles to convince men of the im
spiTrihtere is a nether thing which the Holy portance of this glorious plan of redemp
. does, that perhaps if tile evangelist Lion, and finally was crucified and died
el known, lie NV; eild not be so glad to cruel and ignominous death to save u
ye the churches receive him; and that from eternal misery in a lake of everlast
! i0 MACS all who receive him one- ing fire.
)( n“ itI laen tyh aetx sc: einpetitoilniest hh ea nmda tkheesy t whehmo If weW wHAisTh S AtoLV fAiTnIdO No IuSt WhOoRwT Hm. uch
sanctified are all of ( me; for which thing is worth, we must either find on
Aso he is not ashamed to call them how much it cost or make an estimate
sr.. thren."- Ileb. 2: 11. When the Holy what benefit it is to the person possess
tilt ' st iemies into our heart, he destroys ing it. As salvation was purchased at a
nut of it ; di division s contention, strife, great cost and is of inestimable value to
seetisiti- in fact, every part isan spirit the possessor, we will consider the worth
that would tend to separate two or more of it by both of these rules. First we
persons who have him. When lie collies will see what was the cost.
he ' sheds the love of God abroad in our When we consider the humiliation, life
hearts." ( Rom. 5: 5), which makes us love of self- denial, persecutions, and death of
each other so that we want to he together Jesus Christ, we can get some faint idea
and Ivohip God together. " We have of the cost of this great gift of God to
fellowship ono with another, and the his creatures. If God could have been
blood of Jesus Christ leis tion eleanseth us able to save man and maintain his
from all sin." Let me give you an illus- majesty, divinity, and holiness, he would
doubtless have done so; but now since
the Lamb of God has been offered once for
all to take away sins, he can " be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus."- Rom. 3: 26. The cost was
great; but a heavenly Father's love for
e. will arise and be the lost overcame the humiliation of the
read the ‘ vord of incarnation of the Son, his life of suffer-fel,
hello, tht'y SLY it alike, if ing, his betrayal, his bloody sweat, and
only to tin . Spirit of God his shameful death; " for God so loved
111 would griovt. hint). They the world, that he gave his only begot-
! lieu c an come together and worship God ten- Son, that whosoever believeth on
aueording11$ his word, and ; ill others who him should not perish, but have everlast-receive
the Spirit will he with them. ing life."- Jno. 3: 16.
These wuulit constitute the church of It cost not only the precious blood of
( i Ptl - Doubtless there are many of those Christ- something not to be compared
% vim have been hum of God now dwelling to such corruptible things as silver and
in the different religious bodies. gold or precious stones- but it has cost
Dear brother and sister, you are being the sufferings of millions of holy martyrs
separated from each other by the walls to preserve the glorious gospel and hand
of sect: ism, gotten up by man. - Will you it downefrom one generation to another,
suffer oppression by their rulers and until it has come down to us in these last
lords, or will you step out from every days, and now shines into our pure
Beet and walk by the blessed Bible alone hearts in all the brilliancy of this glen-with
those who are true? You can never ous evening light. Hallelujah! While
your sect; it is going from bad considering the worth of salvation from
to worse. Leave the poor old stranded the standpoint of what it cost, we are
Wreck, and stand for Jesus against all brought face to face with the fact that
divisions. Seek the baptism of the God must have looked npon man- as be-
Holy Ghost, which perfects your oneness ing doomed to awful misery and a tern-with
God and all his people. ble future, when such a prospect moved
him to the extent of making such a sacri-fice
to secure man's salvation; and with
this fact before us we will now consider
the worth of salvation from the stand-
W E have now entered upon . a subject point of what it does for us.
of the greatest importance to man- Man was truly and is yet, in a sad
and can safely say that no subject condition where salvation has not deliv-has
ever drawn so much attention from erect him from the bondage of sin and
as many good people as salvation. It Satan. Conceived in sin and shapers in
has been a subject of profound study for iniquity ( Ps. 61 : 5), the thoughts of the de-the
noblest of God's creatures in all ages, prayed human heart ( Jen 17: 9) are only
and its anticipated blessings have been continually- evil. Gen. 6: 5. God made
spoken of by God's hol y prophets thou- man in his own image, which was right-sands
of years before any living creature eousness and holiness; but by transgress-realized
by experience what salvation ing the - law God gave, he became aalien-meant.
Verse after verse of the sub- ated from his Maker and lost his image;
' truest expressions of Hebrew poetry are wad since that time all men have come
on record under direction of the Holy into the world with a heart naturally
Spirit, concerning this fountain of life inclined to sin.
that wells up within every wholly sane- The prophet in describinng the condition
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when we launch out deeper, realizing that
we are not our own, realizing that God
calls us to greater activity in the,, battle
of Armageddon, realizing that the things
of this temporal life are of little moment,
then will the gospel soon be preached by
printed page and Holy Ghost messengers
to " every kindredt and nation, and
tongue." "
Jesus told the saints in the morning
light that Jerusalem was soon to be de-stroyed;
and the saints sold their posses-sions
and had all things common, and the
Lord was glorified in them. In this
evening light shall we be a whit behind
them in those things, when we remember
that there is about a billion and a half of
souls in this world who need Jesus? - The
present dispensation is one of glorious
increase in power and glory on all lines
till Jesus comes; so we can boldly enteir
into this great undertaking, knowing
that it shall yield increase many fold.
Now, dear saints, is it not true that if
we part with much of these things of the
world and increase the publishing work,
send the truth speedily to " all the
world," and have " all things common,"
God would reward us? Would we
not then be free to do or go as the Spirit
leads? And in living and working in
company with other saints, our spirits
would be strengthened, our faith and
power with God increased, and the world
would again see that we were of God, be-cause
we had love one toward. another. -
Who is consecrated to a meekness that
will cause him to minister rather than be
ministered unto?
The Soul's Cry and the Sayior'S
Answer.
To the Chosen Ones of God.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they.
shall be as white as snow. Isa. 1: 18.
- Create in me a clean heart, 0 God.
Ps. 51: 10.
A new heart also will I give you.
Reek. 36: 26.
I am weary with my groaning.
Ps. 6: 6.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
he shall sustain thee. Ps. 5: 5: 22.
, Thine eyes shall see the King in his,
beauty. Isa. 33: 17. -
My soul waiteth for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning.
Ps. 133: 6.
They that wait upon the lord shall
renew their. strength. Isa. 40: 31.
The terrors of death are fallen upon
me. Ps. 55: 4.
He that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live. Nno.
11: 25.
Come, Lord Jesus. Rev. 22: 20.
Surely I come . quickly. Bev. • 22: 20.
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LORD, be thou my helper. Ps. 30: 10.
Fear not: I will help thee. ha.
41: 13.
0 Lord, I am in trouble. Ps. gl: O.
Call upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee. Ps. 50: 15.
Wash me thoroughly from mine in-iquity,
and cleanse me free/ my sin.
Ps. 51: 2.
I will; be thou clean. Matt. 8: 3.
Keep the door of my lips. N. 1414.
I will be with thy mouth, and tend
thee what thou shalt say. Exo4. 4: 12.
God be merciful to me, a sinner.
Luke 18: 13.
Christ Jesus _ came into the world to
save sinners. 1 Tim. 1: 15.
What must I do to be saved? Acts
16: 30.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. Acts 16: 31.
Oh, that I knew where I might find
him. Job 23: 3.
Ye shall seek me and find me, when
ye shall search forme with all your
heart. Jar. 29: 13.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer
thee? Job 40: 4.
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By practice man has, increased his d
pravity, and the deceitfulness of sin h
so hardened his heart that he is contin
ally heaping up wrath against the day
wrath, and has become more like a bra
beast than a man, in many cases eve
worse than beasts. Rom. 1: 22- 32;
Pet. 2: 12.
Salvation actually delivers us fro
all sin and makes us perfectly holy i
spirit, soul, and body; and by the grac
of God we can be preserved blameless
every day of our life in this presen
world. " For the grace of Go
that bringeth salvation path appeare
to all men, teaching us that, denyin
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in
this present world."- Titus 2: 11, 12
Behold the contrast! Men who formerly
lived in sin and unrighteousness are now
enabled by the grace of God to live in
every respect the very opposite, namely,
soberly, righteously, and godly. And
this life is not limited to some future
time in a supposed Millennium or after
the j adgment, but in this present world.
Praise God!
Paul draws the contrast between his
former life and his life after he was
saved in these words, " For we ourselves
also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and plea-sures,
living in malice and envy, hateful,
and hating one another. Bat after that
the kindness and love of God our Savior
toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration and renew-ing
of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our
Savior."- Titus 3: 3- 6.
Here we have a description of de-praved
human life . and how by two
works of grace full salvation from all
sin, outward and inward, was accom-plished,
and man was restored to the im-age
of his Creator. He is now an entirely
new creature in Christ Jesus, old things
are passed away and all things are be-come-
new; and all these new things are
of God, so there is nothing within him
that is not of God. 2 Con. 5: 17, 18.
His soul and all that is within him can
now bless the name of the Lord; for he
now has a new heart, a pure one, and
the abiding indwelling Comforter the
Holy Ghost bearing witness to his perfect
purity. With the peace of God that
passeth all understanding keeping his
heart and mind through Jesus Christ
under all circumstances, the possessor of
full salvation can truly realize what h
is worth.
Now, dear reader, since salvation is
the one thing needful, let us give the
more earnest heed to the things which
we have heard, lest we should let them
slip; for how shall we escape if we neg-lect
so great salvation! Amen.
By CARL J. TILTON.
GOD wants above all things to see
souls saved from an eternal hell of
outer darkness, and to have theml ivviinngg
testimonies of his power to save, to keep,
and to heal. Jesus' last command was
" Go ye therefore and teach all nations."
Now the majority of the saints are not
chosen of God as preachers, but they are
chosen to serve God in ,, their every- day
life by righteous living; also by giving
of their - substance.
Has not the time come when God
would have us do more and greater things
for him? Would he not have us to make
a step further in our consecration? Are
we ready to say Amen, Lord, here am
I? Many times has my heart been
stirred to see a greater and more rapid
advance toward the rescue of souls.
Truly, if all the pure literature could be
Questions Answered.
Does justification put us into Christ? Can there be
sin in Christ? Does the justified person still possess
the sinful nature, or the seed of sin? If in justification
we still have sin in us, would not sin therefore be in
Christ? I know that I received something in addition
to justification, and I believe it was the second, definite
work of grace, the second cleansing, the taking out of
the seed of sin— carnal mind. E E. N.
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Editorial.
- Sister Lena Shoffner goes this week to
southern Indiana, then on to Mississippi
and other southern states.
THE GOSPFT, TRUMPET
The word of God truly teaches that
those who are justified are in Christ. 1
Thess. 1: 1. But it does not mean that
they are literally in Christ's personage,
but in him in a spiritual sense, that is, in
his grace. The Word also teaches that
the carnal nature still exists in those who
are in Christ in the state of justification,
or the new birth. See 1 Cor. 3: 1.
These Corinthians were evidently in
Christ, because Paul addressed them as
babes in Christ. Ver. 1. In verse 5 he
calls them believers. In verse 6 he
speaks of them as being the fruit of God's
own increase under the preaching of him-self
and Apollos. In verse 9 he calls them
God's husbandry, and God's building.
In verse 23 he says unto them, " Ye are
Christ's." So they were evidently in
that spiritual condition known in the
New Testament as " in Christ," but they
were yet carnal. Ver. 3. The envy,
strife, and division they had among them
was the fruit of that inherited sin they
still possessed. Ver. 3.
There is one text which says when
speaking of Christ, " In him is no sin."
1 John 3: 5. This text does not speak of
that spiritual state in Christ wherein the
justified dwell, bat of Christ's own per-sonage.
It would be ridiculous to apply
this text to the spiritual state in Christ.
If we argue that if sin abides in one who
is in Christ, it abides in Christ; then we
must with equal propriety argue that if
fallibility dwells in one who is in Christ,
it is in Christ. With such vain reasoning
we could rob God of all his attributes or
bestow them all upon the man who is in
Christ, either of which would be absurd
and blasphemous.
The phrase " in him" when not spoken
with reference to the abode of spiritual
men always refers to Christ's own per-son.
And when it refers to the spiritual
abode of Christians it never refers to his
own person. The words under consider-ation
are used by John in proof of his
ability to take away our sins, as any
careful reader will observe. " And ye
know that he was manifested to take
away our sins; and in. him is no sin." .
In the Syriac Version this text reads:
" And ye know that he was manifested
to take away our sins; and in him was
no sin." This rendering makes it very
clear that John was speaking of the walk
of Christ upon earth, and how that he
manifested the fact that no sin abode in
his being during his walk upon earth.
The verse following this one speaks of
our spiritual state in Christ. " Nrhoso-ever
ahideth in him sinneth not: whoso-ever
sinneth hath not seen him, neither
Len own him."
You will observe that it does i: ot teach
that there is no sinful nature existing in
those who abide in Christ, but that they
do not commit sin. It is in perfect har-mony
with the rest of the New Testa-ment
and with the experience of ever y
- body who is truly justified. W. G. S. -
For a few days past I have felt quite a
desire to write my experience with the
late heresy, for the benefit of the readers
of the Trumpet. I believe it will glorify
God in helping others, and relieve the
hearts of those whose prayers have no
doubt beeen ascending to God in my
behalf,
You are aware, I suppose, that my
companion in labor and father in the
gospel, has beparted from the truth as he
once knew it in his heart. I loved him so
much, and had such great confidence in
him, that when be began to teach the
heresy I received it. Before this time,
however, I had passed through some
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It always stirs the devil when the
Lord sends forth his ministers preaching
full salvation, and especially when they
show forth by the word of God that
people can. be sanctified by a second work
of grace; and it stirs him still more when
people get the experience of sanctifi-cation.
When you see men and women going
forth teaching that they were wholly
sanctified at the time their sins were par-doned,
you will find such persons are
either hypocrites or are deceived. It is
generally the case that when peoph
oppose sanctification as a second work of
grace it is because they have not the first
work of grace.
It is not every one that says, Lord,
Lord, will enter into the kingdom of
heaven; neither is every one a child of
God who shouts and claims holiness.
When people begin to take up with false
doctrines they get blinded to the truth
insomuch that they will lie, twist the
scriptures, and at the same time claim to
have a wonderful experience and say if
they are not right they are willing to be
shown their error; but_ when the truth
is given them they will not receive it
because of the false spirit which they
have imbibed.
AN EARNEST CALL.
I have for some time been reading
your gospel paper, also X. W. Byers'
book " The Grace of Healing." Now,
although your doctrine is a new one to
me, it is what I have always believed and
it is the Bible doctrine. What I want to
say is this: Is it possible that you could
send one of your ministers to Cheboygan
to open meetings? We can offer you
every encouragment, and you are the
very people we want here. Everything
is so dull here in regard to religion.
The M. E. church is in a very low state,
and there is no fire nor Holy Ghost
preaching; all seems to be done in a
form. We are just hungering and thirst-ing
to hear the gospel preached in its
fullness— will you help us? Will you do
all you can to send some one? There is
a building here and many friends like
myself, who are just waiting to do all in
their power to help.
Mrs. W. Ramshavr.
Cheboygan, Mich.
RAILROAD PERMITS.
We wish to inform the ministers of
the church of God that a new list has to
be furnished the various associations in
order to secure clergy certificates for the
year 1900. I would advise all to have
their names enrolled whether they wish
to travel on permits or not; for you are
not under obligations to apply for rates
because your name appears on the list.
Many, last year, did not think at the
beginning of the year that they would
need a permit, but afterward found that
they did, and made application after the
list was sent in, thus making much work
for us, and also for the associations. We
have concluded that the time for making
applications through us be from Oct. 15
to Dec. 15, 1899, thus giving us two
weeks to arrange, and have the list
printed and filed with the several associ-ations.
None need apply through us
only those who are actually ministers or
preachers; none need apply as missiona-ries
or helpers. De shall not feel under
obligation to entertain any application
made after the time specified above, by
those who know of this notice. None
bat the Central Association issue permits
to unordained ministers. Arrangements
for application through us are the same
as last year. B. Palmer.
A CALL TO TEN THOUSAND CONSECRATED
HEARTS.
While we were considering the state
of this dark world and the many millions
of lost souls in it, our heart was moved
with sympathy for them. And after
much prayer the Lord showed us to
make a call for ten thousand consecrated
hearts, who will be willing to donate ten
cents a week for one year to the free-literature
fund. This is a small sacrifice;
but when ten thousand respond, it will
amount to a thousand dollars a week;
fifty- two thousand dollars in a year.
With this amount of money we can send
books, tracts, Bibles, Testaments, etc.,
into thousands of homes where they
have never heard the name of Jesus.
Many of us have been saved from to-bacco,
from doctor bills, tea and coffee,
etc. I have sometimes wondered what
has become of all the money we formerly
spent for these useless things. I believe
that it should all - be used for the spread
of this glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
But we are not asking for all the money
thus saved, but only for ten cents a
week. And we pray God to lay a bur-den
of lost souls upon the hearts of all
his people, that they may take hold of
this matter out of love to God and sym-pathy
for lost souls.
Those desiring to give more than ten
cents a week can do so, but the call is
only for that amount. Those who do
not like to be bothered by remitting ten
cents every week, can pay ahead as far
as they like; and vv- here a whole church
resides in one community, they can
throw their ten- cent pieces together on
Lord's day and appoint some one of the
brethren to remit at the first of the
week. But care must be taken to give
the name of each contributor with the
address and amount contributed, that
proper credits may be made at the office.
When a single ton cents is sent ; n the
contributor will not receive a receipt
each week, as this would cost thousands
of dollars during the year for postage,
but at the end of each three months a
statement will be sent to each subscriber,
that he may know how his subscription
stands. Each contributor should keep a
record of what he sends in and compare
with the statement received each quarter.
Wm. G. Schell.
severe trials and testings nere in the city
that very much discouraged and weak-ened
me, and I went down under them.
I made several efforts to get out with
victory over the powers of hell, and the
Lord did wonderfully help me. Being
still weak, I was in no condition to cope
with the powers of darkness that were
about to come upon me. As the false
doctrine was preached I opened my
heart and drank it in. Soon the flood-gates
of hell were opened and the flames
of division, fault- finding, and uncharitable,
criticism began to burn in. my soul.
These things follow this pernicious doc-trine.
I tried to excuse myself and found
my failure upon the blunders and incon-sistencies
of others. I let go my hold on
God and began to really feed upon
others' failures. I knew that these
things did not come from a heart of love;
for " charity thinketh no evil."
When I saw myself in such darkness, I
began to seek the Lord. Oh, what a
mountain was before me I If I had not
had a real experience in the past, I would
have been driven almost to infidelity and
skepticism. Only the dear Lord knows
how many there are who are almost
ready to be dashed to pieces on the cruel
breakers of unbelief, because of those
who have fallen away after having
preached the two cleansings so definitely.
May God have mercy upon the honest
souls who have the fear of God in their
hearts. May God encourage, shield,
and protect them.
The darkness and confusion that sur-rounded
me was more awful than I can
tell. I prayed, fasted, and wept; but
God would not answer. I was asking
him to show me which way was right,
yet all the time ex pecting him to tell me
that the heresy was right. The Lord
had already- in tine past shown me the
right way and had made it clear n m
soul, and surely an undtangeahie
Would not show me one thing at one
time, and then contradict himself at an-other.
If I had not been so blind, I
could have seen the answer to my prayer
in my past ex peri ( elec. One horriille
feature of this delusion is that people in
some way or other actually deny what-
God has done for them. They must do this
in order to conform to the doctrine.
When I found l could not pray through
by myself, I went to a brother and sister
in whom I had great confidence, and
asked their help. For some few days
before this, although I was so blind, the
cry that involuntarily came up out of my
heart was, " 0 Lord, be merciful to me
a sinner!" I wanted to be saved. The
condemnation was awful, and it seemed I
could not repent. Without any ques-tionings
or disputings I asked them to
lay on hands that the enemy might be
rebuked, so that God could have mercy
upon me. I confessed my sin to God,
and he graciously forgave me all. I
began at once to seek a clean heart; and
in a short time God wonderfully broke
up my soul, and sanctified me wholly.
This experience with false doctrine
cost me so much anguish of heart and
distress of mind, that I never again want
to trifle with God's Spirit, or lightly
esteem what he has done for me. Dear
saints, it matters not how plausible a
doctrine may seem, it is tot to be trusted
if the Holy Spirit does not seal the sup-posed
truth. God did not say, " Try the
doctrines"; but, " Try the spirits."
When we get a good look at the spirit in
this heresy, we will see nothing but cruel
division, confusion, and many other
things that separate God's children and
tear asunder their affections. Oh, how
cruel is the enemy of souls! That which
binds God's children is not an earthly tie,
but a heavenly one; and the person who
disregards this bond lightly esteems the
blood that makes us one.
I thank God that I have been snatched
as a brand from the burning, and deliv-ered
from the snare of the fowler. I
am saved by two cleansings. My sins
are all blotted out and my guilt washed
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.
Moundsville, W. Va., Nov. 2, 1899.
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The week of prayer was a precious
season in communion with the Lord and
will doubtless result in the salvation of
many souls.
Bro. W. H. Cheatham and wife begin
meetings this week at Bethel Mission,
No. 19 20th St., Wheeling, W. Va.,
where they expect to continue for some
time. There is a bright prospect of a
good work being done in that city.
When the truth is being spread abun-dantly,
accompanied by the Spirit and
power of God, the devil goes about as a
roaring lion, seeki g whom he may
devour.
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
away. As a second work, my- heart is
made Pp ure by the removal of the old
nature. Continue to pray that I ma y be
kept from evil, and ever be found in the
ways of the Lord. E. A. Reardon.
What Pure Literature Does.
Norway Lake, Minn.
lady gave two copies of The Gospel
Trumpet to a Norwegian boy in the
train. This boy before this time was
saved, and got a ray of the evening
light, saw that sectism was not of God,
and has since lived in this light. He
also rre% As The Gospel Trumpet,. This boy
gave me two copies of the Trumpet, and
I subscribed rind have read it ever since.
I received this precious light on Bible
sanctification, and God has purified my
heart, and let me experience heart-cleansing.
Praise God! I am out of
sectism and out of Millennialism, and am
Very thankful to God that I got this
blessed paper and the books and tracts. 1
have sea tterd Gospel Trumpets far
around, and some have borne fruit.
There is a little church here of ten chil-dren
of God, all Norwegian. I am
severity years old. L. Christoffersen.
Muscatine, Iowa.
I am so glad that I can truly say that
I have been brought out of the mists and
fogs of sectish bewilderments into the
true light. I was a member of the
United Brethren sect for a number of
years, then a member of the Campbell-ites
a short time, then back to the United
Brethren. I was in this twenty- nine
years. I attended meetings of many
denominations, then attended union ser-vices,
truly desiring to find real food for
lily soul; and then at last I was about
to join the W inebrennarian , sect. I
had sent my name in on a slip of
Paper, and they could not pass their
judgments on our names that night
whether we were worthy to join, and
left the business part of the meeting until
another night. I had seen the sin of
, the other sects just as it is in. Rev. 18: 2,
but I was deceived by the name " church
of God," which they all called them-selves.
Praise the dear Lord that before
the next appointment, when we were to
be taken into their church if we had been
Considered worthy by them, the Lord
directed one of his precious little tracts to
Our house. It was" Questions and Answers
Lititz, Pa.
I was praying and longing for two
years, as near as I know, to be with a
man who served the Lord; and then The
Gospel Trumpet was sent to our town,
and led Bro. M. L. Baker to Grand
Junction camp- meeting. He came back
full of joy. He brought tracts and gave
me some. The one that did the work
was " The Apostasy." One Sunday
afternoon after Sunday- school I took the
little tract and commenced reading. It
began to get warm for me and I was
tempted to throw it away. Then the
Spirit suggested to me, " You are seeking;
now accept," and I did. Praise the
good Lord! I am happy in the Lord.
I have found what I was seeking. Pray
for me and our place. Isaac Becker.
Greelyville, S. C.
I had a copy of the Gospel Trumpet
given me last February. There was an
article in it showing that the Missionary
- Baptist denomination is not the church
of God. Well, I had been a member of
that church for years. I read the piece
carefully, and it led me out in the true
light. Please pray that I be kept close
to God. Maggie A. Tobias.
Wittens, Ohio.
About two years ago I heard some of
Your people preach the gospel in its pur-ity,
and I subscribed for the Trumpet.
It has given me a great deal of light and
encouragement, together with your books
and tracts. Pray that I may be en-lightened
more. Geo. W. Galliher.
Allegheny, Pa,.
I was saved about six years ago, while
a member of ' the Presbyterian sect. It
was not anything I heard there that
drew me to God, but it was my own
honesty. In my room one night I was
saved; God gave me a very clear witness
in my soul that my sins were all for-given.
I lived up to all the light I had
for a time, until some one told me of
an old boat ( Floating Bethel) that was in
the river, and that meetings were held
on it nightly. I went one night, and it
was there that I met for the first time
our dear and departed Bro. Warner.
He showed me so much love and meek-ness
in all his ways, that I found his life
was very different from what I had ever
heard or seen in the old sect.
It was Bro. Warner that put the first
Trumpet in my hand. By it I saw the
testimonies of God's people, and read
the several articles on holiness. These
let me see that there was something for
me far beyond anything I had ever heard
in the sect, with their cold and formal
ways. With this I began to make in-quiries
into . the church question. Then
Bro. Warner recommended to me the
book " The Biblical Trace of the
Church," by W. G. Schell. I do praise
God for this book, for it was through it
that I came to discern the body of
Christ. It let me see that what I once
thought was the church of God was
nothing but a part of old Mother Rome.
Dear brother, there is no part of that
book that I could hold up more than
another; for it has all been very dear to
my soul, and through this book I came
into the evening light. There were
other tracts from which I learned some
very precious truths, and which helped
me a great deal. At this time I was a
believer in the Millennium doctrine. I
thought that it was right until I read the
tract " The Millennium doctrine Refut
ed," by D. S. Warner.
Dear brother, I do remember how God
witnessed in my soul and the blessing I
got when I sat with my Bible in one
hand. and the tract in the other, compar-ing
the Word with the tract. It showed
me to prepare for judgment; not for a
Millennium age, or reign with Christ for
a thousand years after he comes. I am
praising God that I am reigning with him
now. Praise his name forever! So
these are the books that led me into the
light. They are all very dear to the
believer's soul. William Hall.
on the Church." - When we read it, I
discerned the Lord's body, and from that
time to this, father, mother, one sister,
and myself have not been in sectism, but
can all praise God for true salvation and
the oneness in his dear Son.
Ida M. Mackley.
1355 Harvard 8t., Cleveland, 0.
In January, 1888 my brother- in- law
sent me two Gospel Trumpets, which I
eagerly read and liked very much. The
following February I was taken sick. I
felt that it was a chastening from the
Lord, meant to bring me into perfect
submission and obedience to him; but I
knew not how to get just where the Lord
wanted me. More than three years pre-vious
to this the dear Lord had by his
divine power and through his love and
mercy, wonderfully healed me of several
afflictions. From that time I had taken
Jesus for my only physician. And now
when affliction came upon me I realized
that I must get straight with God and be
healed, or else I would never recover—
there was no hope for me only in Jesus.
So in my distress I wrote a letter to Bro.
Warner, the editor of the papers which I
had received, telling my condition both
spiritual and physical, and asking if some
one could not come to my help. He
kindly published my letter and added a
note, asking if some minister could not
come to me.
In May Bro. B. N. Longerbone and
wife came and stayed with me, and held
meetings two weeks. The dear Lord
wonderfully healed me while they were
there, but I did not get perfectly clear in
my soul. Through them I heard of a
camp- meeting that would be held at
Beaver Dam, Ind., the coming August.
The Lord opened the way and I went,
and praise the dear Lord, there my soul
was set free from all the error and con
fusion in which it was. Oh, I do praise
his precious name, which is worthy! He
has kept me ever since saved from 0
sin, and the way grows brighter and bet-ter;
and I love the blessed holy way
better all the time. Nettie Henderson.
Kensington, Kans.
The first glimmer of the present light
that dawned upon me was in the fall of
1892, by reading a. Gospel Trumpet,
printed at Grand Junction, Mich. I
borrowed it from a neighbor, and it was
so highly prized by the one that lent it
to my neighbor, that I had to promise to
give it back to him as soon as I was
through reading it.
I was then a Methodist. I saw that
The Gospel Trumpet was on the Bible
line. Although I belonged to the Method-ist
organization yet I was following the
Lord as closely as I could in that organi-zation,
and intended to stay there till I
saw a people that obeyed the Lord in all
things as he commanded in his word.
After I read the first Trumpet that I ever
saw, I began to wish God would send
one of his ministers here to preach to us.
The Lord sent to us a brother whom he
used in getting us saved from sin, sectism,
free to do the whole will of God. Now
I am not in any of the churches organized
by man. But I am born into the church
of. God, organized and governed by God,
Jesus Christ being the chief corner- stone.
God himself is the light of it. Oh, the
glory of God's church! No man can
describe it it was reading the first
Gospel Trumpet I ever saw that caused
me to discern the Lord's body. 1 Cor.
11: 29. Also by reading more of" the lit-eratnre
I was made to search the scrip-tures
much. I read the Bible through
from beginning to end, and had very
little time to read newspapers of a
worldly nature. Jesus said, " My sheep
hear my voice, . . . and they follow
me." Yes, I praise God for giving me
an ear to hear him; for as I was follow-ing
him in the M. E. sect to what light
I had, his voice said, " Come out of
her, my people" and I came out of her
fully. Rev. 18: 1. Frank P. Dimm.
long; because her unparalleled fertility
and consequent populousness promised a
speedy recovery after a downfall. Shall
that country, which was so long, so univer-sally,
and so justly called the granary of
the world, have any other than a dense
population? And, if numerous, shall
strength be wanting to recover her free
dom? It was more improbable of Egypt.
than of any other spot of earth, the t
strangers should always rule and wa-it,
because of its situation. The Mediter-ranean
on one side, the Red Sea on an-other,
impassable deserts on another,
promise great defense. But the total
inundation of the whole country by the
Nile, during a part of every year, ( which
the, inhabitants are prepared to meet,
whilst an invading army never can be,)
would surely aid even a weak people to
defend themselves. But the Lord said
her exaltation was ended, and that her
future recovery was prohibited. The
Babylonians, then the Persians, next the
Macedonians, the Romans, the Saracens,
the Mamelulies, and finally the. Turks
have protracted her subjugation and her
servitude down to the present day! She
has often made the attempt, but never
succeeded to free herself. She has been
under and always under, low and always
low. She has been kept the basest of
kingdoms; servile, stupid, treacherous,
cruel and base in character! - We know
of no part of the earth which has not
governed itself, or been free some part
of the last twenty- four hunderd years,
except that : part, which from its location,
fertility, and internal resources, seemed
most likely to continue independent all
the time! We do not know the other-wise
considerable nation, which has been
thus debased for half that time, but the
one seemingly of all others most capable
of self- defense.
2d.— When Ezekiel lived, had we
been there, and about to invent a highly
political or historic improbability, could
we have thought of a greater one, than
to suppose that the idols mid images
should cease out of Egypt? What?
Shall we conjecture this of those who
were so strangely prone to worship any-thing
but God? Serpents, unicorns,
cattle, reptiles, no matter what it was,
they kneeled before it.
It was a strange prediction to speak of
causing images or idols to cease in a land
where continued baseness is to prevail;
because we spontaneously couple together
in our minds ignorance, images, filth,
idols, and sensuality.
Images have long since ceased there.
Their idols have long since been de-stroyed.
The Christian ( in name only)
Who lives there, and the Turk who rules
there, equally disdain to kneel before
wood or stone, living animals, or painted
statues.
3d.— It was strikingly probable, '
from all former history, and from all
historic analogy, that Egypt would, al
some time have a native ruler, even
should that ruler hold a borrowed or
deputed authority. May not one of her
sons sit a prince upon that throne,
although he be a tributary prince? May
MA her native lords govern there, no
matter how exorbitant the tribute?
There has never been a prince of the
land of Egypt. Their rulers have been
sent to them. Strangers have sent _ their
slaves to be governors of the land of
Egypt.
th
It has not been her own sons, who in
e pride of self- exaltation, have drained _,
the treasures of Egypt. It has always
been by the hands of strangers that she
his been wasted.
Application.— If we inquire of the
believers who live now ( not merely of
the, uncultivated, but of the most noted
for talents and professional eminence)
whether they have not been surprised on
reflecting that these_ things were said of
one nation only, aid that out of, all the
nations of the earth, of one, only they
have happened to be true, and that for
so' ma. ny, generations, we find that . they
INFIDELITY.
THE GREAT AND THE LEARNED DO NOT AC-QUAINT
THEMSELVES WITH BIBLE FACTS.
ITEM 5.— Egypt.-- All the early his-tory
of Egypt, so impressively foretold
by the prophets, we pass over, and come
at once down to the particulars that are
accomplishing at present— to those things
which have been fulfilling in all recent
years, as well as in ancient days. W e
may notice those predictions concerning
Egypt, which the reader, whether young
or old, has lived to see fulfilled.
The words of Ezekiel: " And I will
bring again the captivity of Egypt, and
I will cause them to return into the land of
Pathros, and they shall be there a base
pleb, low] kingdom. And it shall be the
basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it.
exalt itself any more above the nations,
for I will diminish them that they shall
no more rule over the natiOni. And
will make the rivers dry, and sell the
land into the bands of the Wicked, and I
will make the land waste and all that is
therein, by the hand of strangers, I the
Lord have spoken it, I will also destroy
their idols, and I will cause their images
to cease out of Noph, and there shall be
no more a prince of the land of Egypt."
— Chaps. 29, 30.
We remark 1st.— It was very unlikely
to human apprehension. that Egypt
should be the lowest of kingdoms always.
Of all other nations, it was most unlikely
that Egypt should be depressed very.
Requests for Prayer.
Pray for Codelia Copeland, of Missouri,
for healing of deafness. -
Pray for William W. White, of Delaware,
for salvation.
Pray for Mrs. L. E., Hadlock, of Wiscon-sin,
for the healing of gravel.
Pray for of Sister Willie Ann Rush, of
Mississippi, who desires to be saved.
Pray for my healing of chills, and for my
baby who has fever. S. A. Herring.
Pray for my poor old mother, nearly 84
years of age, who has cancer. William
Cook. -
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THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Greenville, Mo., Oct. 19.
Once more we can report victory
through him who loved us and gave
himself for us. Since our last report we
have held meeting at the following
places: Kingston, Mo.; Muscatine,
Iowa; and Clinton, Iowa. We closed
meeting a few days ago at this place
with victory for God. We had the
privilege of meeting Sister Nora Arm-strong,
and Bros. White and Fowler.
W hen the judgments of God went forth
to victory, several souls came to the altar
and sought pardon. At this, the secta-rians
seeing their craft in danger, became
greatly enraged; and the Lord permitted
us to bear some persecution for his
name's sake in the way of stones and
eggs, which were thrown through the
windows and at the vehicles going to and
from service. God protected us and no
damage was done, with the exception of
a few slight bruises from the stones.
But despite all the opposition, many
friends were won to the truth, and a few
were saved and followed the Lord in
baptism. The Baptist meeting- house at
this place is now open for the truth, and
any of God's workers passing this way
will receive a hearty welcome. Truly,
dear brethren, the dragon is loosed out
of his prison, and his pagan worship
is fast appearing on the stage of action;
so let us be true to God and to each
other, and fight the battle through for
him who gives us the victory. Praise his
name! Oh, for more love and power to
win precious souls to Jesus! We can
realize to- day of a truth that " all things
work together for good to them that
love God." D. 0. Teasley and Co.
THE TOPEKA MISSION.
Meriden, Kans., Oct. 18.
Dear Saints of God: May the Lord
bless you all with " great grace." e
have felt for some time to encourage you
to a life of greater self- denial and econ-omy
for the sake of precious souls. When
we see on every side of ns the need of
financial aid and in pressing forward the
cause of Christ, surely it should receive
our earnest consideration and prayerful
attention; and help us to deepen our con-secration
into activity. Those not called
into the vineyard of the Lord as preachers,
teachers, and gospel helpers may look to
the Lord in earnest prayer to give them
employment suited to their ability-, that
they may supply their own needs, and
have something for the cause of Christ,
not just what happens to be left over,
but a portion that shall make them real-ize
that their talents and time are truly
consecrated to God.
It is so natural to try to plan our lives
for our own ease and comfort, and for-get
that thereby some poor souls may
fail to'receive the good news of salvation
and spend an eternity in woe, that we
need often to bestir ourselves and " exer-cise
ourselves toward godliness" in self-denial
and love to souls. As Jesus laid
down his life that we should live, so we
must have the same spirit and yield oar
lives in service to others.
Dear workers, how much re-sponsibility
rests upon us in encouraging
to activity even the weakest ones? Not
long ago in meditating upon God's work
and workers, my mind seemed to be
carried very forcibly along the line of
how weak and ignorant the best of gos-pel
workers had once been. How they
had been pressed out little by little from
one responsibility to another, until they
became efficient laborers in the Lord's
vineyard through his grace and power.
Then I saw how unwisely we sometimes
act regarding this matter. If workers are
desired, we wish for the very best and
most experienced, and if they fail to
come, we are disappointed and the work
is hindered. Observing this so forcibly
made me " look at home," and, lo and
behold, we had dear little ones who
longed to work for the Master, but felt
so weak that they needed encouragement
to activity, and the work was waiting for
good workers. We learned our lesson,
applied it to ourselves, and waited on the
Lord, and he made things clear and
pressed us forward to his glory.
The Topeka Mission is now open— a
two- story building with basement. On
the first floor is the chapel and book- room
with Sister Smith to keep it open and
receive all that would enter for any kind
of help. Bro. and Sister Stonebreaker
occupy a back room as father and mother,
and Bro. Duncan holds evening service.
W hat else is needed we know God will
supply.
The basement is designed as eating-room
for the needy. The second floor
has five nice rooms for workers or those
needing care. House- to- house work is
much needed, and we pray God to give
us those suited for the. work. The house
expense is $ 25 a month, and much is
needed for furnishing rooms and providing
eatables. We believe this work is here
to stay, and ask you to take it to the
Lord in' prayer, and see what the Lord
would have you do to move it forward.
No doubt twenty- five willing workers
could give a dollar a month toward the
rent, and leave the workers here more
free for other services; for we expect to
do with our might what our hands find
to do.
We fully believe God has a great field
of usefulness for Topeka, and by faith we
see " things not lawful to utter," as the
secret is with the Lord. The beginning
has been slow, but we have, been learning;
and the Lord is very, patient with his
little ones, although discouragement has
nearly cast us down several times, and
some have wondered and waited before
coming to' our aid. -
Dear- saints, do not wait until a work
is flourishing before you lend a helping
hand, but look to the Lord for direction,
and labor in faith and love. Those desir-ing
to aid ns, address Sister Anna B.
Smith, Gospel Mission, 212 N. Kansas
Ave., Topeka, Kans.
Jennie C. Rutty.
Testimonies
I was healed of rheumatism and a
cough by obeying James 5: 14, 15. I
praise the dear Lord for what he has
done for me. Also praise him for such
a book as the Bible. I am - sanctified
and healed. Jennie Letner.
Rockport, Ky.
I was sick and I called for an elder of
tile' church; he anointed me and I was
healed. I praise God for sanctifying me,
and . hekling me of what' the doctors said
was consumption. I desire to spread the
news all I can. Belle Duluth
Wichita, Kans.
I am saved and kept by power divine.
It is by faith that I am kept by his
power. I do find that it is so sweet to
trust in Jesus and take, him for our heal-er
of both soul and body. I praise
the Lord that I did hear and heed the
call " Come out of her, my people," into
the one body, the church of the living
God, which is the bride of Christ. I can
say with rejoicing in my heart that the
Lord has completely and thoroughly
saved me from sectism, and has released
me from the snares of the enemy of my
soul. Praise his dear name! I do
thank the Lord deep down in my heart
for ever sending some of his true and
tried ones to the town where I lived to
labor and plead for the salvation of poor
lost and deceived souls like myself, and
that he did hear and answer their earnest
prayers. I am willing to follow whith-ersoever
he leadeth. David M. Baker.
Please pray Nov. 1 for Chas. McCarty, of
Toronto, Ont., whose lower limbs are use-less
from a spinal trouble. Wm. Farnan.
Pray for the healing a Susie Roister, of
Logan, Ohio, who has a cancer that is eat-ing
away her breast and slowly taking
her life.
Tidmore, Ala. Please pray earnestly for
my husband who is so bitterly opposed to
the truth. He has left me; pray that he
may be brought to a knowledge of the
truth, and that we be again united. Pray
also for my sick baby and that I hold out
faithful under all opposition. Vianna Lee.
Calls for Meetings. -
Charleston, S. C. Bro. and Sister Jones
will gladly welcome to their home any of
the saints led to that place.
Harman, Randolph Co., W. Va. I desire
some one called of God to come here and
hold meetings. Write to Charlotte E.
Jones.
Phoenix, Ariz. We would like to have
some of God's ministers come to Arizona
and hold meetings, as we feel that there is
a work here for some one to do. Bailie
Ryder.
Franklin, Ark. I expect to start south
about Nov. 20 to preach the gospel in south-ern
fields. We will go through Memphis,
Tenn. Those on the way that desire us to
stop and hold meetings, will please corre-spond
with us at Franklin, Ark. Samuel
Ford. -
Meeting Notices,
Summerville, S. C. Beginning Nov. 2.
Assembly meeting. J. F. Lundy, J. L.
Pike, Noah Duncan, and other ministers are
expected, and it is hoped that there may be
a large attendance of the saints. Summer-ville
is on the Southern R. R., 22 miles
west of Charleston. For further - informa-tion
address D. T. Washington, Summer-ville,
S. C., or R. J. Smith, 179 Line St.,
Charleston, S. C.
Colfax, Wash. Beginning Nov. 2, to
hold over two Sundays. Assembly meeting.
The meeting will be held at the usual place,
10 miles south of Colfax. Persons coming
by the 0. R. and N. R. R. will stop at Col-fax.
Notify J. B. Conover. Those coming
by the N. P. R. R. will stop at Pullman.
ENlobetritfoyn , A W. aBsh. . Peternian. J. C. Benton,
Macedonia, Tenn. Beginning Nov. 3, to
continue ten days. Assembly meeting.
Bro. Noah Duncan is desired, and whomso-ever
the Lord may send. The nearest rail-road
station is Athens, Tenn. Address
Bro. G. W. Guffey, Piketon, Tenn.
Lakeview, MBiecghinn. in6g Nov. 4.
Meetings conducted by Bro. Peter Mittie.
Let all come to do good and get good.
E. A. Soules.
Lena Station, La. Nov. 10- 19. Assem-bly
meeting. This meeting is to be held
at Campbell Creek meeting- house, 5 mi.
south of Lena Sta. and 8 mi. west of Boyce.
We are praying that the Lord send some
northern brethren to assist in this meeting,
and we hope to have a good attendance.
For further information address Robt. Mar-tin
or Wesley Knight, Lena Station, La.
Grand Junction, Mich. Beginning Nov.
14, to hold over two Sundays. Assembly
meeting. This meeting will be held on
the camp- ground, one mile north of the
station. Those wishing to be met at the
station should write to Bro. W. B. Grover,
Grand Junction, Mich. We expect a feast
- of good things. A. B. Palmer.
Caringer, Tenn. Beginning Nov. 20, to
last as lloonngg as the Lord wills. Assembly
meeting. All lovers of the truth are in-vited
to come. Bro. Thos. Carter and wife
will be here. Other ministers expected.
For information write to me at Caringer.
M. N. Roark.
Dixon, Miss. Beginning Dec. 23, to last
as long as the Lord wills. Assembly meet-ing.
This place is 26 mi. from the Bale
road. We need help. For further infor-mation
address J. B. Strickland, Dixon, Miss.
St. Paul, S. C. Beginning Nov. 23, to
hold over two Sundays. Assembly- meeting.
This place is 24 miles south of Sumter, on
the Atlantic Coast- line R. R. We hope to
have a good attendance. Come praying.
For further information address R. J.
Smith, 179 Line St., Charleston, S. C.
Federalsburg, Md. Beginning Nov. 23,
to continue over two Sundays. Assem-bly-
meeting. Federalsburg is on the
eastern shore of Maryland near the Dela-ware
state- line, and on the Delaware divi-sion
of the Pennsylvania R. R. Any one
coming by way of Baltimore will take
steamer at Pier 4 for Choptank and notify
us, and we will meet them. Those coming
by way of Philadelphia will take Pennsylva-nia
R. R. to Federalsburg. If God has
ministers that can come to help in this
meeting, they will please write us at once.
For further information address Chas. E.
Orr, Federalsburg, Md.
Hartsells, Ala. Beginning Nov. 25, to
last as long as the Lord wills. Assembly-meeting.
This meeting will be held at
Zion on the camp ground, 5 miles east of
Hartsells. All lovers of the truth are in-vited.
Bro. Noah Duncan is expected to
attend. • We desire others also. E. W.
Sharp, Somersville, Ala.
Plattsburg, Miss. Beginning Dec. 8, to
last as long as the Lord wills. This meet-ing
is to be held in the saints' new meeting-house.
Those wishing to come and stay
during the meeting will come - prepared to
take care of themselves, as Bro. W. J.
Gentry has engaged five houses and one
tent to be used. If any wish to be met at
the station they will please notify Bro.
Gentry in time,- and he will meet them at
Kosciusko, or McCool. All are invited.
For further information address W. J.
Gentry, Plattsburg, Miss.
Augusta, Ga. Beginning Dec. 22, to last
as long as the Lord wills. Assembly- meet-ing.
All ministers and workers are espe-cially
invited, and all that desire a soul-benefit
be sure to come. Bros. Pike, J. F.
Lundy, and R. J. Smith are expected to be
present. This will be the general assembly-meeting
for the south. J. L. Edwards.
Obituary.
CUMMINS.— Bro. George E. Cummins
was born December, 1860; died Oct. 22,
1899. He leaves a wife, four sons, and two
daughters. He died triumphant in the liv-ing
faith. He trusted God to the end.
May God bless his saved wife, and lead the
unsaved into the way of life.
F. W. Cocerham.
Baker City, Ore.
HAKE.— Frank A. Hake, son of P. F.
and Mary Hake, died Sept. 11; aged 29 yr.
Bro. Frank was saved last April, and lived
up to all the light he had until God saw fit
to call him home. He died in the faith,
leaving a bright evidence that all was well.
May the dear Lord ' bless the parents and
prepare them to meet him is my prayer.
William N. Suavely.
Adville, Ala.
CONWAY.— Mrs. Susan P. Conway, wife
of W. W. Conway, was born July 26, 1834;
died Oct. 11, 1899. She had been blind for
nearly five years. She fell out at the door
and was badly hurt, and lived fifteen days
afterward. A part of the time she- suffered
intense pain, but bore it all patiently. She
accepted the truth nearly six years ago.
She was ever a friend to the poor and
needy, and was kind to all. She expressed
a willingness to depart and be with Jesus.
Wilson W. Conway.
have never meditated on such points.
Of these and of similar facts, almost
countless in extent, they know nothing,
and they do not inquire. Yet either
openly or in their heart they are scoffers.
Men are slow and backward to inform
themselves of anything on the side of
truth ( in matters of religion), but slight
and superficial objections: weak but
plausible theories against the Bible, they
learn speedily, they understand instantly,
and they remember always. It is
supposed on good evidence, that no son
of Adam was ever known to forget an in-genious,
and seemingly correct argument
against Christianity ( once heard) so long
as he retained his mind.
The conclusion is that men love dark-ness
rather than light.-- Nelson.
News from the Field
Moundsville, W. Va.
We expect to start down the Ohio
River holding meetings along the way
going as far as Kentucky; then to Vir-ginia,
if the Lord so directs. We shall
be glad to hear from those along the line
who desire meetings.
G. T. Clayton and Co.
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Divine Healing.
Prayer Answered.
I am so glad to testify to- the
good Lord has done for me. - He
me day by day, and I do praise litin
his healing power. Last eVenine
and hurt my foot badly. I was at the
store and from that time I could scarcely
have any weight on that foot. It' ivas
all I could do tO get home, and when I
took my shoe off the foot was very pain-.
ful. I wondered what I would do, and:
there was- something told me to trust
God, so I went to praying. I was re=
lieved of the pain and I went to sleep.
In the morning I got up to work, and
my foot has not pained me since. It is
wonderful what God will do for us if we,
will trust him. Pray for me.
Rachel A. Sanger.
Indiana Mineral Springs, Oct. 21.
An Afflicted Limb Healed.
I thank God for what he has done for
me. ' W hen I was about eight years of
age I was troubled with, hip- joint disease.
My hip came out of place, and about
twelve months after it was put in place
an ulcer came on it, which bothered me
for three or four years. I took Hood's
Sarsaparilla, and it healed it up; but: I
still suffered untold agony with that limb.
Sometimes I could not walk at all. In
August, 1899, about two months ago; I
appealed to God for help. My father,
mother, and my oldest sister joined me in
prayer, together with Christians else-where.
I thank God for the victory. I
am now healed. That limb is as'strong
as any of the rest. - I ask the prayers of
all Christian people. I am now sixteen
years of age. I suffered for eight years,
but will no longer suffer with that limb.
I thank God for what he has done for
me. Annie L. Byrum.
Bo8ley, H. Oct. 9.
Healed, Where Doctors and Medicines Failed.
I feel led of the Lord to write to the
Trumpet and the dear ones in Christ of
the wonderful healing power of the
blessed Lord in healing my wife and
baby. Thanks be unto God that wife
and I got into a position that we both
believed that they could be healed. The
devil tried to discourage us, and through
his agents false rumors came to us of the
dear ones, whom we are commanded to
send for in Jas. 5: 14. We payed no
attention to the plans or devices of the
devil, and I prayed more earnestly with
no desire to give lap, but to put all in the
Lord's hand. I sent word to Brother
Orr, according to Jas. 5: 14, and Brother
and Sister Orr came to Brother Baker's
near here, and wife and baby met them
there. They were anointed and prayed
over, and praise the dear Lord they were
healed. My wife was troubled with a
misery in her stomach, and almost every-thing
she ate gave her pains, and severe
it times. Doctors' medicines gave
; cared .), any relief. Praise the Lord, the
pains left her and she can eat what she
wants and things she could not eat before
Ind they do not hurt her. Baby is getting
. long si 1 ziclidly and s fat and healthy
filchi better than before, when We
. ised medicine. Praise the Lord! We
nave no more use for doctors' medicine.
But we trust the Great Physician, whose
3zime is above all names and his mercy
3ndureth to all generations: Dear
saints, it is a glorious thing to know that
God can and does heal us, and that we
2an pray for him to' rebuke the devil,
and know that he does. We have greater
faith in God than ever, and realize that
we are living closer to him than. ever
before. Our prayers are that we may
grasp hold of the promises more and
pray him to rebuke the devil in his at-)
tempts to discourage us and that we may
continue steaafast in the truth and, say
amen to God's will, not ours-'-
and sisters, let us pray One for InOthe;'
that our faith be steadfast, and that
others may live and grow in grace that
they may get where God can open their
eyes on divine healing, and that his heal-ing
power may be made manifest among
them, as with us. John H. Griffith.
11' d., Oct. 8, 1899.
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Anxiety and Faith.
- THERE are many things we can study
great advantage in the notice of
their contrasts: in fact, there are some
things that are difficult to apprehend,
except by studying them negatively, and
by- finding what they- are not our minds
are aided in grasping what they are.
Anxiety and faith are just the opposite
of each other, and by looking at them
contrastively we may get deeper insights
to both and be aided in loosing the one
and acquiring the other.
1.: Aindety has its center in the creature,
but faith has its center in God. Every-thing
has a center to it, and this applies
to mental and moral principles as truly
as to forms of matter or living things.
Anxiety could never form a part of the
experience of an immortal soul unless it
were in some way depending on created
beings or things. Reason is the parent
of anxiety, for when reason does not act
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit it
invariably leads to distrust of some kind.
And reason looks at the creature, at
friends or foes, at circumstances and
probabilities, at laws of nature and the
prospects, and seeing only the realm of
the natural it can never produce perfect
confidence.
On the other hand faith pierces through
all creatures, and all circumstances, and
fastens itself upon an infinite, universal
God, who is in all, and through all, and
who knows all and superintends all.
Faith is the eye of the human spirit
looking at God, and in a certain lofty
sense, ignoring everything but God.
That incomprehensible invention known
as the X- ray will pierce through planks,
or hundreds of pages of paper
or any amount of flesh, and reveal
the center of every object the first of all,
so that the observer looking through the
lens sees the bones of a man before he
sees the flesh. This beautifully illustrates
the principles of inspired faith. It pierces
through thick walls of circumstance and
phenomena and sees God, first of all,
reposing at the center of all- events and
beings, and looks at other things as they
are related to God. If thoughtful per-sons
will stop to examine every anxious
feeling they have had, and trace it to its
starting - point, they will find it is centered
in some creature and not in the Creator.
2. Anxiety exists in the wants of a
fallen state, but faith has its origin in the
fullness of the provisions of God. If it
had not been for the fall of man the
human mind would never have been tor-tured
with anxiety, for there never would
have been any abnormaL or fictitious
wants, but only such legitimate needs as
the Creator found, and these would have
met a counterpart supply without the
intervention of foreboding or questioning
fears. The fallen condition of the soul
makes it have many overreaching desires
and an excessive feeling of want, as a rag-ing
fever produces many abnormal wants
in a sick person. The reason is busy
With these wants and is constantly
searching for ways and means to gratify
them, and in doing this it sees only the
changes of human life, it sees the thou-sands
of instances where these wants are
not supplied, and this creates anxiety,
and furthermore, the more these wants
are brooded upon the more exorbitant
they grow until the natural life becomes
a series of Multiplied wants.
On the other hand faith goes out from.
the ceature and looks upon the fullness
of God; it searches into his character,
his benevolence, his inexhaustible fullness
to supply the mind and affections, and
sees in everwidening oceans not only the
relouicesOf God but hid loving willing-
,
ness to supply his creatures, and this in-terior
vision of the fullness of God de-stroys
anxiety. The very looking at our
wants, unless it be through the fullness
of God's supply, will produce anxiety.
We often multiply our wants by looking
at them, and faith alone can counteract
this principle of distress; for just as our
fallen state makes short- sighted reason
its ally, so faith is God's ally in. the
soul, and it alone can rest in the fullness
of God.
3. Anxiety is bounded by the vision
of the natural perceptions and is attached
to things around it, but faith has a won-derful
expansiveness to it, and is attached
to God's will wherever that will May be
found anywhere in the universe. The
natural reason is near- sighted and sees
things only that affect the present hour
and emergency; it sees things frag-mentary,
and so is perplexed at the mis-haps
and complications of men and
things; it attaches itself to this or that
thing or enterprise, and when there is a
collapse or disappointment it is in con-sternation.
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On the other hand faith is long vi-sioned
and is expanded wherever God
exists, and firmly attached to his will, so
that it does not cling to any creature,
or circumstance, or nation, or human
creed or church, or earthly props, but is
internally untied to God himself, and
thus it can use the present order of the
world without abusing it, and easily let
go all things and circumstances to follow
God. St. Peter, describing the fullness
of the graces, says " he that lacks these
graces is blind and near- sighted, so that
he can not see afar off."
Anxiety is near- sighted, but faith has
a telescopic vision and sees things afar
off, and looks at passing events, from
the standpoint of eternity, as they will
appear a thousand years hence. Hence
anxiety results from seeing all creatures
and events out of their proper propor-tion;
it sees things to be giants, which
faith, looking at in the light of eternity,
regards only as tiny insects.
4. Anxiety is always changing its
objects, but faith has no change of
object, and its only change is to increase
and intensify. Human reason, which is
the instent of anxiety, fixes its hope
first on this person then on that, first on
this party or goverment, or enterprise, or
prospect, and then. on that. Hence
anxiety is like a person crossing a river
on floating blocks of ice, stepping on this
one hopingit will float him over, but find-ing
that it is melting or sinking he steps
on another, and so all through life the
mind never reaches a solid repose.
On the other hand faith has got down
through the shifting sands on the earth's
surface and is anchored in the primeval
rock of God and his word; it never
changes its object and has no desire to
change, for resting in an infinite God it
spurns even the thought of change.
There is no need of any change in the
blue dome_ of the sky, or the white light
of the sun, or the blue waves of the sea,
or the law of gravitation, because these
things are all sufficient; and- the birds in
the sky and the fish in the sea have no
thought of wanting a change in the
constitution of the sky or sea, so when
faith has found its abiding place in God
it never dreams of wishing to change its
object, but will, to' all eternity find its
sufficiency in him, and the more it ex-
Pa, nds, and apprehends God the farther it
gets from ever wanting to change the
center of its rest.
5. Anxiety, resulting from various
reasonings, is always manifold and com-plex
and divided into many forms and
things, but faith is united and simple.
. . Professed Christians who think
they have perfect faith in God manifest
a religious anxiety by quizzing into the
Antichrist theories of second probation,
annihilation, conditional immortality,
the restoration of devils, Swedenborgian
denial of the resurrection, Christian
Science, mind- reading,- higheT criticism,
the mere moral theory of the atonement,
physical immortality before death, holi-ness
by keeping the Jewish law, and
other unscriptural theories which are
complex and soul- puzzling, producing
only an argumentative state of mind and
a feverish state of the heart, showing
that the whole system of their religion
has dragged its anchor from pure faith in
God to the fluctuating sands of reason.
When the believer has been crucified, un-til
not one trace of selfishness or self- will
remains, God himself then becomes the
only object of his unchanging faith, the
three persons of the God- head are foun-tains
of unchangeable comfort and peace,
and perfect faith in God unites all other
principles of the mind in quietness and
harmony like the seven colors that are
united in a ray of pure light.
Perfect faith in God is a miracle of
simplicity, and reduces all things in life
to a state of simplicity; the reason, the
judgments, the affections, the words, the
labors of such a soul move in straight
lines under the dominion of a supernat-ural
and simple faith which in every
thing shuns the complex and seeks for
the plain and transparent. Hence we
notice people whose religion is mixed up,
and who are trying to live by their reason
are always uneasy, there is a chronic
distress in their lives, a vacillation in
their service of God, and a fruitless effort
to find happiness in somebody or some-thing
apart from. God himself. But per-fect
faith in God has a sweet satisfaction
in it; it drinks continually from the sun-bright
fountains of God himself through
the person of Christ and by the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit. If a little pool of
water should set its, eye on the dry air,
and the cloudless sky, and the dusty
earth, it might faint under the thought
of drying up, and be in deep distress; but
if it could see the ocean and perceive the
constant evaporation of millions of tons
of moisture going up in the air, its
anxiety about drying up would pass
away. Thus the soul that in perfect
faith gazes on the ocean of God is kept
from uneasiness and inward distress of
heart, for it lives on what it sees in God
and not on the appearance of things.
6. The principle of reason is always
struggling to achieve results, but the
principle of faith accomplishes the great-est
results by harmonizing with God and
working through him. Not only are,
unsaved people full of anxiety, but great
multitudes who are serving God allow
their reason to take the place- of faith,
and so the so- called churches, the camp-meetings,
the Christian conventions and
missions present a scene of so much
human planning, and wire- pulling, and
partiality, and cliques, . and sets, and
boards where half- believing or make-believing
people are taxing their wits with
policy, and plans, and. fears, to bring
things to pass, as they think, for the
glory of God; but when they are tried
in the fire, or ground to powder, there
is hardly an ounce of faith found to a
ton of the rubbish of reasonings and
anxieties. Pure faith sinks itself into
God, seeks only his will regardless of
apparent success or failure— it works
through the Holy Ghost and lets God .
bring about results. When the soul is
made one - with God by pure faith it
achieves things in a divine way, and in
the divine time, free from anxiety and
free from. the arduous struggles of the
natural mind. Perfect faith sees God in
a failure, or a smash up, where other
people regard everything as a total
wreck. Thus all through life anxiety
sprouts from the creature and makes its
home in human reason and calculations,
but faith springs up in union with God,
anchors fast to the eternal will, feeds
itself on God's unchanging love, keeps '
tranquil in the all- hidden presence of
God, has no interest in the outcome of
anything except the interest of God, and
scks in all things to be one with ' Testis
Christ, and in that union anxiety call
find no foot- hold.— Selead.

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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather to-trier
Ins elect from the four - winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Mat. 24: 31.
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So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Bze. 34: 12. Jet 32: 39.
NUMBER 43
meat ( Jno. 12: 48), and of course they will
be condemned by it. Jas. 2: 10. • Hence we
find that it depends upon the choice that
the people make, and what kind of life
they live in this world, where they will
spend ETERNITY.
I was talking with a man ( predestinarian)
since I have been preaching the gospel, and
I asked him to come to meeting. He said
he would if it was the right kind. I told.
him I was preaching nothing but gospel.
Says he, " I know you; you are one of those
fellows that teach people that they can live
without sin." ( Not the right kind for
him.) I told him the Bible taught the
same and he remarked that his Bible said
that " man is born to sin, as the sparks fly
upward." And he looked about half an
hour, with a complete concordance to
assist him, and. then got angry because he
could not find it. He was_ one of those
hardened fellows. Some may ask, Why?
It is because he would not believe the truth,
but took pleasure in sin; and wanted to
find. something to justify himself in the
same. Therefore, God just let him and the
devil ( his father) fix up that delusion for a
refuge. And he declared to the last that it
was in the Bible somewhere. Nearly all
who make a hobby of " election" are gen-erally
ready to picture some ( unknown) route
to heaven by the way of six.
" We have made a covenant with death
[ for the wages of sin is death], and with
hell are we at agreement; when the over-flowing
scourge shall pass through [ they
think] it shall not come - unto us; for we
[ are the elect] have made lies [ Satan's
scripture] our refuge, and under falsehood
have we hid ourselves."- Isa. 28 15.
But, praise God! when judgment is laid
to the line, and. righteousness ( not sin) to
the plummet, the hail ( God's word) shall
sweep away the refuge of lies ( home- made
scripture), and. the water shall overflow the
hiding- places. Ver. 17.
Men love darkness rather than light
[ truth and righteousness], because their
deeds are evil. For every one that doeth
evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Rua 3: 19, 20. Hence, we can see that by
the preaching of the gospel, people reject
it, and thereby become hardened.
The preaching of the gospel is ordained
of God. Mark 16: 15, 16; 1 Cor. 9: 14, 16.
In that sense God hardens people's hearts,
because every time a person hears the gospel
preached, and refuses to obey it, he gets
more haid- hearted. But each one has
power to receive and believe the truth. 1
Jno. 3: 23; Heb. 11: 6; Jas. 1: 22. There-fore,
through love for sin, and not willing
to comply with the terms of the gospel, and
be saved, they are " hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin." Hence, they are
responsible for themselves.
Of all the hardened people in the world,
the " HARDSRTILLED PREDESTLITARIANS"
are the hardest that I have ever met. Some
call them hard- heads,. but I think . hard-hearts
would be more appropriate, as they
will not believe the truth. " Ye hypocrites,
well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
" This people draweth nigh unto me with
their mouth, and honoreth me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me. But
in vain they do worship me, teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men."-
Matt. 16: 7, 9.
Some _ say they were saved more than
eighteen hundred years ago, and still sin-ning
every day; and declare that they can
not do any better. They are surely looking
for help from the wrong source. " I can do all
' things through Christ, which strengtheneth
me."- Phil. 4: 13. Praise Ms narae! He
saves, us from our sins. Matt. 1: 21. Saves
" to the uttermost that come unto God by'
him."- Heb. 7: 26. His blood cleanseth
us from all sin. 1 Jno. 1: 7. " We axe
more' than conquerors through him that
loved us."- Rom. 8: 37. " Well" say some,
" THE BIBLE TEACHES ELECTION."
Very well; ; believe in election myself,
as the Bible teaches-" elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto OBEDI-ENCE,
and sprinkling of the bloodabf Jesus
Christ." - 1 Pet. 1: 2. But say this har-dened
class of people, " We are elected ac-cording
to the foreknowledge of God."
This we admit: God foreknew and foreor-dained
a plan of salvation, and the provi-sions
have been made, through which all men
can be elected, or saved, if they would Only
meet the requirements of God, and accept
his offered mercies. Each individual has
power to make his own choice. Jesus tasted
death for every man. Heb. 2: 9. And
God " commanded all men everywhere to
repent."- Acts 17: 30. Jesus says, " - Ply-cept
ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish."
- Luke 13: 3, 5. " Whosoever will" etc.
But the people ( the hardened ones) say,
" We can not unless God gives us the will."
Very true; God gives us life, breath, will, and
all things ( Jas. 1: 17); and. gives every man
power to exercise his own will as it pleases
himself, and commands him to make his
choice. Den*. 30: 19. Jesus says, Come
unto me, all. Matt. 11: 28. God says,
Turn and live. Rzek. 18: 32. Peter says,
Make your [ own] calling and election sure
( 2 Pet. 1: 10) by complying with the require-ments
of God. It is every man's privilege.
Praise the Lord ! Jesus says, " Whosoever
heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise Man. .
. . And every one that heareth these sayings
of mine and doeth them not, shall be liken-ed
unto a foolish man."- Matt.
What kind of a God would it be to say,
" Choose" " Come" " Whosoever will"
" Repent, all, or perish" and even call the:
people fools if they do not come, and atthe
same time knowing that he had arranged a
plan so they could not come, if they wanted
to do so ever so much? Shame on the dean '
and any man that will try to put such ' a
delusion on the people, and call it preach-/'
ing the gospel of Christ! 0 ye blind guideal
of all the foolish, thou art the most ignot:
rant. " For they being ignorant of God's''
righteousness, and going about to estalilish-:
ttheir own . righteousness [ sin], have not-submitted
themselves to the righteousneee'
[ salvation] of God."- Rom. 10: 3.
While it is a fact that can not be denied"
that every man has power to make his ofrit'
choice, and each individual can make hite
( own) election sure by Complying with : the- 1
terms of the gospel, yet it is -
" NOT OF HMI THAT WILLETH,:'
nor of him that runneth, but [ salvatia]
of God, that showeth mercy."- Rom. 9 a6
" Not by works of righteousness . Whiekare°
have done, but according to his" metT
saved us, by the washing - of regeneragOn
and renewing of the Holy Ghost."
3: 6. " Their righteousness inklisai
the Lord [ not of man]."- Isa. Vert .
" Might be partakers of his holiness."-- 4tebi
12: 10. " Judah , hath profaned tlielhoriiielki°
of the Lord which lie loved."- MaL
Salvation does not come from the priest,
preacher, as some may suppose; andt le
not of man, neither did we receive it by
man, but by the revelation of Jesus Clariii141
( Gal. 1: 12; Rom. 1: 16), and by the 1i ' wee
of God through faith. Matt. 28 : 184s1inktVW
1: 68- 75; Heb. 7: 25; 1 Pet. 1 : 5 ; Jude' 11-
Hence, it is of God, and not of ( him that
hath the will to receive it) man.
this is a
loss utterly
. Anti-
1 only
by Satan and his followers, and intended to
nett and women 111
and rlasniare their souls in this
net, and drag them down to a never- ending
lake of tire.
Now, let us notice a few texts of scrip-ture,
proving that every man is a free moral
agent, and haa power given him to make
his own choice. .
Josh. 24: 15-" Choose re this day, whom
ye will serve." Dela. 30 : 15.-" See I have
set before thee this day ' life and good, and
death and evil." David said ( Ps. 119: 30),
" I have chosen the way of truth." Jesus
la " the way, the trutli, and the life." Jno.
14: 6. " The Lord is not willing that any
should perish."- 2 Pet. 3: 9. " Come unto
me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest."- Matt. 11-: 28.
" And the Spirit and the bride [ church]
8/ 14 Come. And let him that heareth say,
a6osta e. And let him that is athirst come.
And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely [ God will not hinder
any one.]."- Rev. 22: 17. " Fear not, for
behold, I bring you good tidings of great
joy, which shall be to all people. "- Luke
: 2: 10. " I call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, that I have set before
you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both thou and
thy seed may live."-- Deut. 30: 19.
All these, and many other places show
Plainly that every man has a chance, if be
would only eamply with the terms, and
accept the offered mercies of God.
a r enniost
tsr ouep, lawine , find other scriptures that
and many people trying to
pry into things that do not concern them,
wrest ( twist) such scriptures to their own
destruction. 2 Pet. 3: 16. I am willing to
admit that there are a few texts that seem to
teach that certain ones were hardened, and
could not be saved, etc. But we find by
searching carefully, that there was . always
a reason on their part that caused it to be
so. All who know the Lord, know him to
be a God of truth. Jer. 10: 10; Jno. 17: 17.
" Yea, let God be true, but every man a
liar."- Rom. 3 : 4. " His judgments are
according to truth."- Rom. 2: 2. There-fore,
let us not barter our time away trying
to learn something that does not concern
our soul's salvation, but suffice it to know
that there is no lie of ( in) the truth ( God's
word). 1 Jno. 2: 21. And it is impossible
for God to lie. Titus 1: 2; Heb. 6: 18. Then
let us be sure that we do not explain some-thing
" hard to be understood" ( 2 Pet. 3: 16),
in such a way as to make it contradict some
plain declarations in other places, thereby
making a lie in the word of God.
There is no doubt that God fully intended
to have a holy people ( Dent. 7: 6), even
before he made man. " Rath chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy, and without blame before
him in love."- Eph. 1: 4. He created man
holy-" in his own likeness"- in the begin-ning.
Gen. 1: 27. And since the fall he
has arranged a plan whereby we can be
redeemed, bought back and made holy
again. ha. 35; Luke 1: 73- 75. All this
proves that God fully intended to have a
Ii ely people, even from the beginning. 2
Thess. 2: 13. But I never saw a predestina-rian-
so- called - yet, that had salvation,
and it seems that there must - be something
wrong and deceptive in their doctrine;
because the doctrine ( gospel) of Christ
saves people when they believe and obey it.
Rom. 1: 10; 6: 17, 18. Therefore, anything
that will not save people from sin is not the
doctrine of Christ, but of men and the
devil. Titus 1: 14; 1 Tim. 4: 1, 2.
WHOM HE WILL HE HARDENETEC.
Rom. 9 : 18-" Therefore hath he mercy on
whom he will have mercy, and whom he
will he hardeneth." This, and a few other
similar texts, they ( predestinarians) use as
part of a foundation to base their delusion
upon. Now read Heb. 3 : 7- 13,--" Wherefore,
as the Holy Ghost saith, To- day, if ye will
hear his voice, harden not your [ own]
hearts" etc. How do people harden their
hearts? Ans.-" Lest any of you be har-dened
through the deceitfulness of sin.."-
Ver. 13.
" And to whom sware he that they should
not enter into his rest, but to them that
beleived not? So we see that they could
not enter in because of unbelief."- Heb.
3: 18, 19. How does God harden peo-ple's
hearts? Ans.- 2 Thess. 2: 11, 12-
` And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie [ some false doctrine], that they all
might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness." So
we can see that they could not enter in ( be
saved) because of unbelief.,
Here we have two - texts by the same writer
( Paul), stating that sin and unbelief, or
love for sin and unrightecnisness, and none
for the truth, will harden people's hearts.
One text says that God did it, and the other
one- says, " Harden not your [ own] hearts."
But we see the real cause is sin, and unbe-lief,
which is the result of people rejecting
and disobeying the truth, and striving
against the Spirit of God, which is, indeed,
very dangerous. " All who reject the gos-pal
will have to meet the same in the judg-
The Rock, Christ.
Rock of Ages, standing fast
In the desert wild and vast;
Lifting up thy stately form
To the sunshine and the storm;
Changeless through all changing time,
Strong, impregnable, sublime!
Rock of Ages, let me hide
In thy deeply caverned side,
When the tempest rolls on high,
And the lightnings cleave the sky,
In the sweetness of repose,
There awhile mine eyes to close.
Rock of Ages, let me stand
On thy brow, serene and grand:
Thence to view the way I've come,
Thence to catch a glimpse of home-
Home, where toils and troubles cease,
And the soul finds perfect peace.
Sheltered there let me remain
Till the heavens grow bright again,
Rock of Ages, : et me rest
In th y shadow, when distressed
By the long and weary way,
Or the noontide's burning ray.- SELECTED.
Can We fall?
( Mnfinued from Lost issue.)
flit l'BrI) 1.: 41NATION.
lootrine of tlevils from
way some people teach it.
elan of people that teach the
elusion, that a person can not
n fist go tit 1nt'
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how much they pray anti seek the Lord; if
they have not been tlt, t.. tol from the begin-ning,
they can not he saved. And it mat-teN
not how wieked a man may be, what
bloody crimes he may commit if he has
Wen elected, he will lie saved, anti ean not
help himself. Um' is to 110
differenee what happens.
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able judgment, can see at WI
doctrine front the pit of hell, tt
blinded by the deeeptious
Christ. Such a delusion is instit
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rangements were Itt: t
pointed to his
same. It does not
this falsehood of
certain portion
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sin, also teach
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the human family is
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THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Heb. 2: 1- 3-" Therefore, we ought to give
the more earnest heed to the things which
we have heard, lest at any time we should
let them slip. For if the word spoken by
angels was steadfast, and every transgression
and disobedience received a just recompense
of reward: ROW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE
NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION?"
THOS. CARTER.
If this ( predestinarian) falsehood were
true, it would be difficult to learn who are
the most foolish, that kind of preachers or
the devil. According to their doctrine, God
has decreed from all eternity the exact
number that are saved, and the very individ-uals;
also just who must be lost in hell.
And those two classes are so fixed, that
they can not be increased or decreased by
any act of man. But here is the mystery
in my mind; those preachers are out trying
to get people saved, and to join something,
when at the same time, according to their
own teaching, they do not think that God
is giving any attention to them whatever.
And our adversary, the devil, as a roaring
lion also walketh about, seeking whom he
may devour. 1 Pet. 5 : 8. Yoa see the
devil thinks he can devour some that are
already elected, and the preachers ( poor fel-lows)
think by lectioneering a little they can
persuade God. to change his plan (?), and
elect a few more, and at the same time tell-ing
the people that their eternal destiny has
been. fixed ever since the foundation of the
world. Therefore they and the devil are
simply making fools of themselves, spending
their time in vain.
There is a weak place somewhere, and I
locate it in this devil- doctrine, for God's
word is true. Praise his holy name ! If I
believed such an unreasonable thing, I
would gg home and stay there, just what
every man ought to do that teaches such a
delusion of the devil.
" 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest
the prophets, and stonest them that are
sent unto thee! how often would I have
gathered thy children together, as a hen
doth gather her brood under her wings, and
ye would not!"- Luke 13: 34. " He came
unto his own [ the Jews], and his own re-ceived
him not. But as many as received
him [ did not harden their hearts], to them
gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe [ through the
truth- Jno. 17: 17, 20] on his name."-
Jno. 1: 11, 12. Jesus would have saved
them all, but they would not let him.
But some say, " We do not think we can
do anything unless God helps us:
WE ARE NOT SAVED RS: WORKS."
It is true, we are not saved by works, and
yet, we have something to tto, even before
being saved from sin. First, Cease to do
evil. Isa. 1: 16. Forsake evil ways. Isa.
55: 7. Restore. Ezek. 33: 14- 16. Forgive
others, if anything against them. Matt.
6: 14, 15. Be reconciled. Matt. 5: 23, 24.
Confess to God. 1 Jno. 1: 9; Prov. 28: 13.
Then ask, and ve shall receive. Matt. 7: 8.
Must also have faith in God. Mark 11: 22;
Heb. 11: 6. " For by grace are ye saved
through; faith, and that not of yourselves, it is
the gift of God. Not of works [ sacrifices,
etc. blest any man should boast. For we are
Iiia workmanship, created inChrist Jesus unto
good works, which God before ordained
that we should walk in them" ( good works
- Matt. 5: 14- 16).
While we can not be saved by works of
the law, that is, by beast offering, etc., as
though Christ had not come ( Heb. 9: 13,
14; 10 : 10; 13 : 12 ; Titus 3: 5), yet, God
hath so ordained that we should walk right.
Denying " ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we
should live soberly, righteously, and godly,
in this present world."- Tit. 2: 12. It is by
the grace of God that we are saved, but that
is received through faith, and it is impossi-ble
to believe to t, he saving of the soul with-out
complying. with the requirements of
God. Faith and works must go together.
God has made a covenant, or contract, and
has taken an oath ( Luke 1: 73- 75); therefore,
he will never fail on his part. If the people
will enter into this covenant which God has
made, and fulfill their part, their election
will be, sure. In this contract, God requires
both faith and works. Jas. 2: 14, 19, 20,
26-" What doth it profit, my brethren,
though a man, say he hath faith, and have
not works? can faith save him? Thou
believest that there is one God; thou. doest
well: the devils [ and sinners] also believe
and tremble. But wilt thou know, 0 vain
man, that faith without works [ obedience]
is dead? For as the body without the spirit
is dead, so faith without works is dead
also." -
A great manyepeople speak to us about
THE CLAY AND THE POTTER.
RM. 9: 21---" Hath not the potter power
over the clay, of the same lump, to make
one vessel unto honor, and another unto dis-honor?"
We are the clay, and God is the
potter. Come now, and let us go with
TT is a, well- known fact that the ambi-
4 tion of sectism in its present condition
is to reform. Men, who once in their
career enjoyed the glory and power of
God in their souls, and saw God work in
their church (?), now behold their mere-hers
as a valley of dry bones. They lift
up their voices and cry aloud, " Reform,
reform" but all in vain. The tide of
worldliness, and the numerous sinful and
cold professors have overwhelmed the
thing, and driven spirituality far, far
away. Formality, that proud, arrogant,
stiff- necked monster, is ruling with a
high hand, and the humble, meek, and
quiet spirit of Christ is not to be seen
at all.
Dear ones, are you dwelling in the
midst of such? Have you spent a good
portion of your life trying to reform
your church? You have undertaken a
hopeless task. You are living in a dis-pensation
of time in which the prophet
says, " Babylon the great is fallen, is
fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit,
and the cage of every unclean and hate-ful
bird. . . . And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto
heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities."- Rev. 18: 2- 5.
To reform sectism to the extent neces-sary
to meet the approbation of God
would be a thing impossible, providing all
would meet the conditions of God's
word; but this, then, indeed would put
an end to sectism itself. See 1 Cor.
14: 33. Alas! such a thing is not proba-ble.
One of their own prophets, a popu-lar
evangelist of denominationalism,
while beholding the cold, format,
worldly condition of sectism, recently
said, " Reform is not what we want.
We alter this and alter that; we reform
and reform, but are not bettered. What
we want is the Holy Spirit." To this
we agree. To receive the Holy Spirit
would indeed be a wonderful reforma-tion,
It would reform the multitudes of
stiff- necked creatures to humble ones,
the proud and arrogant to the meek
and lowly. It would change the con-tentions,
strifes, and divisions to peace,
love, and harmony; the outward worship
of formality and ceremonies to the in-ward
worship of Spirit and truth.
Dear reader, I am interested in von.
Let us take the word of God. Perhaps
you can get a ray of light concerning
the Holy Spirit. Have you been taught
that you could not get him now? Have
you been taught that you could have him,
but not taught how to get him? Have
you been taught the results of receiving
him? Let us examine the word of God
on these points. First you ask, " Can I
have the Holy Spirit?" I answer, " Re-pent,
and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for the re-mission
of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost. For the prom-ise
is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even as many as
the . Lord our God shall call."- Acts
2: 38, 39. " And it shall come to pass
in the last days, saith God, I will pour
' out my Spirit upon all flesh."- Chap.
2: 17. The promise is to all. - What are
the conditions? Repentance. This is a
requisite to the reception of the Holy
Ghost.
Indeed this is the first of all our obli-gations
to God. " Repent and be bap
- tized" Peter says, " and ye shal receive
the gift of the Holy Ghost." This may
appear that baptism is essential to the
reception of the Holy Ghost. We be-lieve
people ought to be baptized ( in
water) in the name of the Lord Jesus as
soon as possible after repentance. But we
read in the Bible that God actually
poured out the Holy Ghost upon dome
even before they were baptized, and they
Jeremiah down to the potter's house, and
hear the word of the Lord.
Jer. 18 : 1- 6-" The word which came to
Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and
go down to- the potter's house, and there . I
will cause thee to hear my words. Then I
went down to the potter's house, and,
behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
And the vessel that he made of cla y was
marred in the hand of the potter. So he
made it [ the same lump] again, another
vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make
it. Then the word of the Lord came unto
me, saying [ Here is the lesson;], 0 house of
Israel, can not I do with you [ make you
over again] as this potter? Saith the Lord,
Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand,
so are ye in mine hand, 0 house of Israel."
Now read verses 7- 12; also Gen. 6: 5- 9, and
the third and fourth chapters of Jonah.
We can see plainly that it depends greatly
upon the way the people live, and what they
do in this world, whether they are saved or
not. If they get spoiled ( marred) after God
creates them, he is able to make them over
again, for which he has made provisions in
the plan of salvation. And all that remains
is for men to put themselves into the hands
of God as the clay in the hands of the
potter.
" Lo, this only have I found, that God
hath made man upright; but they have
sought out many inventions [ have got
spoiled]."- Eccl. 7 : 29. The people have
gotten into such a marred, or ' spoiled, con-dition
that God has arranged a plan to re-generate,
or recreate them. Eph. 2: 10-
" For we are his workmanship, created
[ again] in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God bath before ordained, that we
should walk in them." " Therefore, if any
man be in Christ, he is [ made over] a new
creature [ creation], old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new."
- 2 Cor. 5: 17. " If a man therefore purge
himself from these, [ all sin and ungodliness
Cor. 7: 1; Titus 2: 12] he shall be a ves-sel
unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the
Master's use, and prepared [ not to sin, but]
unto every good work."- 2 Tim. 2: 21.
Now, let us conclude by noticing a few
texts showing that we must obey the word
of God. If we get him in our favor by
obeying him, we will be elected sure, be-cause
God is the majority. " If God be for
us, who can be against us?"- Rom. 8: 31.
" We are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth against them which com-mit
[ any kind of sin] such things. .. .
Who will render to every man according to
his deeds. To them who by patient continu-ance
in well- doing, seek for glory and
honor and immortality, eternal life. But
unto them that are contentious, and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath. Tribulation and
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
evil; of the Jew first, and - also of the Gen-tile:
but glory, honor, and peace to every
man that worketh good; to the Jew first,
and also to the Gentile. Fon THERE LS NO
RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH GOD. FOP as
many as have sinned without law shall
also perish without law; and. as many , as
have sinned in the law shall be judged by
the law [ and we which have the gospel shall
be ' judged by it- Jno. 12: 48.]; for not the
hearers of the law are just before God; but
the doers of the law [ of Christ] shall be
justified."- Rora. 2: 2, 6- 13. " But he that
doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong
which he bath done: AND THERE Is No
RESPECT OF PERSONS. "- Col. 3: 25.
Then Peter opened his month and said,
Of a truth I perceive that God is no re-specter
of persons, but in every nation he
that feareth him, and worketh righteous-ness,
is accepted of him."- Acts 10: 34, 35.
" Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God and keep his command-ments;
for this is the whole duty of man.",
- Ecel. 12: 13. " But be ye doers of the
Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own selves."- Jas. 1: 22. Read Rev. 22: 14;
2 Thess. 1: 6- 9; Titus 2: 11-" The grace of
God that bringeth salvation hath appeared
to all men." But this is false if God only
offers grace to save some men.
Need of the Holy Ghost.
BY O. 0. DODGE.
were baptized in water subseqently.
Read Acts 10: 47, 48.
The next thing after repentance is to
continue to obey God. " And we are
his witnesses of these things; and so is
also the Holy (+ host whom. God hath
given to them that obey him.- Acts
5: 32. Jesus says, " If ye love me, keep
my commandments. And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, . . . even the spirit of truth
[ or Holy Ghost] ; whom the world [ or
sinners] can not receive."- Jno. 14: 15,
17. We must repent and live in obedi-ence
to God, which entitles us to the gift
of the Holy Spirit. " If ye then, being
evil, know how to give good gifts unto
your children: how much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask him."-- Luke
11 : 13. Since God is our Father, he is
willing and glad to give us his Holy
Spirit. To have him as our Father we
must be " born again" and lice as he
desires. " If we walk in the light, as
he is in the . . . the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin."- 1 Jinx 1: 7. Amen.
We have now answered two questions
concerning the Holy Spirit. Is it our
privilege to possess him now? Yes.
How shall we proceed to get him? Re-pent,
and live in obedience to God. If
\\- e do this, God will let us understand
that we need ; 111( 1 ought to have his Holy
Spirit,. Now the last and a very impor-tant
question is to be answered. What
will he ( the hol y Spirit) do for us when
we get him? In short, when we receive
the Ilolv Spirit, we are fully redeemed.
Our life is not actuated by Satan or self
but by the lIoly Spirit. " Your body is
the temple of the Iloly Ghost whieh is in
you, which ve have of t; od, and ye are
not your own."--- I Cor. When
We repent and are converted our outward
life is changed, our sins aro gone, and
we lead a ReW life. But, as many have-found,
there is a principle in their heart
Which troubles them. They feel " prone
to wander.
When you receive the baptism of the
Holy Ghost your inmost soul is renewed,
your very nature is chanot. Where
there were elements of prick,
strife, and envy there is now humility,
tenderness, concord, anti love. The
blessed " renewing of the Ifolv Ghost"
Titus 3: 5. If the so• ealled chureiles
would receive the Holy Spirit, where you
now see the arrogant look there would
be a look of love; where there is a sanc-timonious
look there would be one
peace and joy. In place of pomp and
costly array it would be an attire as
" becometh women professing godliness"
that is, moderate, modest, free from gold,
or pearls, or costly array. 1 Tim. 2: 9.
In place of " my" church and " your"
church it would be God's church. In
place of a lively ambition to get people
to join it would be an earnest effort for
the salvation of souls. In place of mem-'
bers sitting stiff- necked and stiff- backed
in their seats listening to the preacher
go through a formal prayer, they would
be upon their knees communing with
God. Indeed the churches do need the
Holy Ghost. He renews us.
But now what more does he do? He
sanctifies us. " Oh, no" you say, h ` I
do not believe in sanctification." Per-haps
you have heard some ridiculous
story- about this. Did you ever investi-gate
this from a Bible standpoint? If
not, you ought to do so. Pant - tlie
apostle, gives us to understand that his
work, or the fruits of his labors among
the Gentiles was accepted of God, " be-ing
sanctified by the Holy Ghost."-
Rom. 15: 16. Peter called those who
were sanctified the " elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father
through sanctification of the Spirit."--- 1
Pet. 1: 2. The Holy Ghost also makes
us pure in heart, which is equivalent to
sanctification. " Giving them the Holy
Ghost, . . purifying their hearts by
fai th."- Acts 15: 8, 9. " Blessed are the
pure in heart; : for they shall see God." tifled believer in Jesus Christ; and
_ Matt- 5: 8. He being the Ray
Ghost, are told that it so interested the i
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of course he makes us holy. nha
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onBee myeo tnh eernetf. oJrees upse rsfaeicdt ( eMveant ta. s5 y: 48), anWd haennn oJeusnucse wda tsh biso rgnl othrieoyu csa emvee ndto
Felber which is in heaven is perfecotu." r Gsoomde humble shepherds among the hi
ii „ Judea, and with joyful lips prais
evidently meant we should have a od for his great salvation. Luke 2:
perfect heart, or, in other words, a pure 14. Next we find John the Baptist,
heart. If wt'.
wt'. have a pure heart, we can mighty prophet of the most high Go
attain to no higher state of purity; there- proclaiming this gospel and exhorti
fore our heart is perfect. And if our people to repent and believe on t
heart is perfect, our life will be perfect author and finisher of our salvation, a
as far as purity and righteous living is preparing people to receive the feline
concerned. We can " grow Ca grace and of the grace of God; and soon we he
knowledge" n
evertheless, and increase of him pointing Jesus out to his folio
in beauteous g races of this holy life. ers, and testifying that he is " the Lam
" The eyes of the Lord run to and fro of God, which taketh away the sin
hhtheimarrots ueisgl fh sotruotn tgh ein w behhoallef eoaf rtthhe, m to w shhooswe theJ ewsuosr lhdi. m"- sJenlfo . s p1e: n2t9 o. ver three yea perfect toward him."- 2 Ohron. amid trials, temptations, dangers, and
t; " Ile Bath perfected forever them persecutions, to teach us about salvation
that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy and he did hundreds of the most wonde
(, host also is a wit ness."- Heb. 10: 14,15. ful miracles to convince men of the im
spiTrihtere is a nether thing which the Holy portance of this glorious plan of redemp
. does, that perhaps if tile evangelist Lion, and finally was crucified and died
el known, lie NV; eild not be so glad to cruel and ignominous death to save u
ye the churches receive him; and that from eternal misery in a lake of everlast
! i0 MACS all who receive him one- ing fire.
)( n“ itI laen tyh aetx sc: einpetitoilniest hh ea nmda tkheesy t whehmo If weW wHAisTh S AtoLV fAiTnIdO No IuSt WhOoRwT Hm. uch
sanctified are all of ( me; for which thing is worth, we must either find on
Aso he is not ashamed to call them how much it cost or make an estimate
sr.. thren."- Ileb. 2: 11. When the Holy what benefit it is to the person possess
tilt ' st iemies into our heart, he destroys ing it. As salvation was purchased at a
nut of it ; di division s contention, strife, great cost and is of inestimable value to
seetisiti- in fact, every part isan spirit the possessor, we will consider the worth
that would tend to separate two or more of it by both of these rules. First we
persons who have him. When lie collies will see what was the cost.
he ' sheds the love of God abroad in our When we consider the humiliation, life
hearts." ( Rom. 5: 5), which makes us love of self- denial, persecutions, and death of
each other so that we want to he together Jesus Christ, we can get some faint idea
and Ivohip God together. " We have of the cost of this great gift of God to
fellowship ono with another, and the his creatures. If God could have been
blood of Jesus Christ leis tion eleanseth us able to save man and maintain his
from all sin." Let me give you an illus- majesty, divinity, and holiness, he would
doubtless have done so; but now since
the Lamb of God has been offered once for
all to take away sins, he can " be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus."- Rom. 3: 26. The cost was
great; but a heavenly Father's love for
e. will arise and be the lost overcame the humiliation of the
read the ‘ vord of incarnation of the Son, his life of suffer-fel,
hello, tht'y SLY it alike, if ing, his betrayal, his bloody sweat, and
only to tin . Spirit of God his shameful death; " for God so loved
111 would griovt. hint). They the world, that he gave his only begot-
! lieu c an come together and worship God ten- Son, that whosoever believeth on
aueording11$ his word, and ; ill others who him should not perish, but have everlast-receive
the Spirit will he with them. ing life."- Jno. 3: 16.
These wuulit constitute the church of It cost not only the precious blood of
( i Ptl - Doubtless there are many of those Christ- something not to be compared
% vim have been hum of God now dwelling to such corruptible things as silver and
in the different religious bodies. gold or precious stones- but it has cost
Dear brother and sister, you are being the sufferings of millions of holy martyrs
separated from each other by the walls to preserve the glorious gospel and hand
of sect: ism, gotten up by man. - Will you it downefrom one generation to another,
suffer oppression by their rulers and until it has come down to us in these last
lords, or will you step out from every days, and now shines into our pure
Beet and walk by the blessed Bible alone hearts in all the brilliancy of this glen-with
those who are true? You can never ous evening light. Hallelujah! While
your sect; it is going from bad considering the worth of salvation from
to worse. Leave the poor old stranded the standpoint of what it cost, we are
Wreck, and stand for Jesus against all brought face to face with the fact that
divisions. Seek the baptism of the God must have looked npon man- as be-
Holy Ghost, which perfects your oneness ing doomed to awful misery and a tern-with
God and all his people. ble future, when such a prospect moved
him to the extent of making such a sacri-fice
to secure man's salvation; and with
this fact before us we will now consider
the worth of salvation from the stand-
W E have now entered upon . a subject point of what it does for us.
of the greatest importance to man- Man was truly and is yet, in a sad
and can safely say that no subject condition where salvation has not deliv-has
ever drawn so much attention from erect him from the bondage of sin and
as many good people as salvation. It Satan. Conceived in sin and shapers in
has been a subject of profound study for iniquity ( Ps. 61 : 5), the thoughts of the de-the
noblest of God's creatures in all ages, prayed human heart ( Jen 17: 9) are only
and its anticipated blessings have been continually- evil. Gen. 6: 5. God made
spoken of by God's hol y prophets thou- man in his own image, which was right-sands
of years before any living creature eousness and holiness; but by transgress-realized
by experience what salvation ing the - law God gave, he became aalien-meant.
Verse after verse of the sub- ated from his Maker and lost his image;
' truest expressions of Hebrew poetry are wad since that time all men have come
on record under direction of the Holy into the world with a heart naturally
Spirit, concerning this fountain of life inclined to sin.
that wells up within every wholly sane- The prophet in describinng the condition
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when we launch out deeper, realizing that
we are not our own, realizing that God
calls us to greater activity in the,, battle
of Armageddon, realizing that the things
of this temporal life are of little moment,
then will the gospel soon be preached by
printed page and Holy Ghost messengers
to " every kindredt and nation, and
tongue." "
Jesus told the saints in the morning
light that Jerusalem was soon to be de-stroyed;
and the saints sold their posses-sions
and had all things common, and the
Lord was glorified in them. In this
evening light shall we be a whit behind
them in those things, when we remember
that there is about a billion and a half of
souls in this world who need Jesus? - The
present dispensation is one of glorious
increase in power and glory on all lines
till Jesus comes; so we can boldly enteir
into this great undertaking, knowing
that it shall yield increase many fold.
Now, dear saints, is it not true that if
we part with much of these things of the
world and increase the publishing work,
send the truth speedily to " all the
world" and have " all things common"
God would reward us? Would we
not then be free to do or go as the Spirit
leads? And in living and working in
company with other saints, our spirits
would be strengthened, our faith and
power with God increased, and the world
would again see that we were of God, be-cause
we had love one toward. another. -
Who is consecrated to a meekness that
will cause him to minister rather than be
ministered unto?
The Soul's Cry and the Sayior'S
Answer.
To the Chosen Ones of God.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they.
shall be as white as snow. Isa. 1: 18.
- Create in me a clean heart, 0 God.
Ps. 51: 10.
A new heart also will I give you.
Reek. 36: 26.
I am weary with my groaning.
Ps. 6: 6.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
he shall sustain thee. Ps. 5: 5: 22.
, Thine eyes shall see the King in his,
beauty. Isa. 33: 17. -
My soul waiteth for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning.
Ps. 133: 6.
They that wait upon the lord shall
renew their. strength. Isa. 40: 31.
The terrors of death are fallen upon
me. Ps. 55: 4.
He that believeth in me, though he
were dead, yet shall he live. Nno.
11: 25.
Come, Lord Jesus. Rev. 22: 20.
Surely I come . quickly. Bev. • 22: 20.
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LORD, be thou my helper. Ps. 30: 10.
Fear not: I will help thee. ha.
41: 13.
0 Lord, I am in trouble. Ps. gl: O.
Call upon me in the day of trouble: I
will deliver thee. Ps. 50: 15.
Wash me thoroughly from mine in-iquity,
and cleanse me free/ my sin.
Ps. 51: 2.
I will; be thou clean. Matt. 8: 3.
Keep the door of my lips. N. 1414.
I will be with thy mouth, and tend
thee what thou shalt say. Exo4. 4: 12.
God be merciful to me, a sinner.
Luke 18: 13.
Christ Jesus _ came into the world to
save sinners. 1 Tim. 1: 15.
What must I do to be saved? Acts
16: 30.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. Acts 16: 31.
Oh, that I knew where I might find
him. Job 23: 3.
Ye shall seek me and find me, when
ye shall search forme with all your
heart. Jar. 29: 13.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer
thee? Job 40: 4.
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By practice man has, increased his d
pravity, and the deceitfulness of sin h
so hardened his heart that he is contin
ally heaping up wrath against the day
wrath, and has become more like a bra
beast than a man, in many cases eve
worse than beasts. Rom. 1: 22- 32;
Pet. 2: 12.
Salvation actually delivers us fro
all sin and makes us perfectly holy i
spirit, soul, and body; and by the grac
of God we can be preserved blameless
every day of our life in this presen
world. " For the grace of Go
that bringeth salvation path appeare
to all men, teaching us that, denyin
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in
this present world."- Titus 2: 11, 12
Behold the contrast! Men who formerly
lived in sin and unrighteousness are now
enabled by the grace of God to live in
every respect the very opposite, namely,
soberly, righteously, and godly. And
this life is not limited to some future
time in a supposed Millennium or after
the j adgment, but in this present world.
Praise God!
Paul draws the contrast between his
former life and his life after he was
saved in these words, " For we ourselves
also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,
deceived, serving divers lusts and plea-sures,
living in malice and envy, hateful,
and hating one another. Bat after that
the kindness and love of God our Savior
toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but
according to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration and renew-ing
of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our
Savior."- Titus 3: 3- 6.
Here we have a description of de-praved
human life . and how by two
works of grace full salvation from all
sin, outward and inward, was accom-plished,
and man was restored to the im-age
of his Creator. He is now an entirely
new creature in Christ Jesus, old things
are passed away and all things are be-come-
new; and all these new things are
of God, so there is nothing within him
that is not of God. 2 Con. 5: 17, 18.
His soul and all that is within him can
now bless the name of the Lord; for he
now has a new heart, a pure one, and
the abiding indwelling Comforter the
Holy Ghost bearing witness to his perfect
purity. With the peace of God that
passeth all understanding keeping his
heart and mind through Jesus Christ
under all circumstances, the possessor of
full salvation can truly realize what h
is worth.
Now, dear reader, since salvation is
the one thing needful, let us give the
more earnest heed to the things which
we have heard, lest we should let them
slip; for how shall we escape if we neg-lect
so great salvation! Amen.
By CARL J. TILTON.
GOD wants above all things to see
souls saved from an eternal hell of
outer darkness, and to have theml ivviinngg
testimonies of his power to save, to keep,
and to heal. Jesus' last command was
" Go ye therefore and teach all nations."
Now the majority of the saints are not
chosen of God as preachers, but they are
chosen to serve God in ,, their every- day
life by righteous living; also by giving
of their - substance.
Has not the time come when God
would have us do more and greater things
for him? Would he not have us to make
a step further in our consecration? Are
we ready to say Amen, Lord, here am
I? Many times has my heart been
stirred to see a greater and more rapid
advance toward the rescue of souls.
Truly, if all the pure literature could be
Questions Answered.
Does justification put us into Christ? Can there be
sin in Christ? Does the justified person still possess
the sinful nature, or the seed of sin? If in justification
we still have sin in us, would not sin therefore be in
Christ? I know that I received something in addition
to justification, and I believe it was the second, definite
work of grace, the second cleansing, the taking out of
the seed of sin— carnal mind. E E. N.
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- Sister Lena Shoffner goes this week to
southern Indiana, then on to Mississippi
and other southern states.
THE GOSPFT, TRUMPET
The word of God truly teaches that
those who are justified are in Christ. 1
Thess. 1: 1. But it does not mean that
they are literally in Christ's personage,
but in him in a spiritual sense, that is, in
his grace. The Word also teaches that
the carnal nature still exists in those who
are in Christ in the state of justification,
or the new birth. See 1 Cor. 3: 1.
These Corinthians were evidently in
Christ, because Paul addressed them as
babes in Christ. Ver. 1. In verse 5 he
calls them believers. In verse 6 he
speaks of them as being the fruit of God's
own increase under the preaching of him-self
and Apollos. In verse 9 he calls them
God's husbandry, and God's building.
In verse 23 he says unto them, " Ye are
Christ's." So they were evidently in
that spiritual condition known in the
New Testament as " in Christ" but they
were yet carnal. Ver. 3. The envy,
strife, and division they had among them
was the fruit of that inherited sin they
still possessed. Ver. 3.
There is one text which says when
speaking of Christ, " In him is no sin."
1 John 3: 5. This text does not speak of
that spiritual state in Christ wherein the
justified dwell, bat of Christ's own per-sonage.
It would be ridiculous to apply
this text to the spiritual state in Christ.
If we argue that if sin abides in one who
is in Christ, it abides in Christ; then we
must with equal propriety argue that if
fallibility dwells in one who is in Christ,
it is in Christ. With such vain reasoning
we could rob God of all his attributes or
bestow them all upon the man who is in
Christ, either of which would be absurd
and blasphemous.
The phrase " in him" when not spoken
with reference to the abode of spiritual
men always refers to Christ's own per-son.
And when it refers to the spiritual
abode of Christians it never refers to his
own person. The words under consider-ation
are used by John in proof of his
ability to take away our sins, as any
careful reader will observe. " And ye
know that he was manifested to take
away our sins; and in. him is no sin." .
In the Syriac Version this text reads:
" And ye know that he was manifested
to take away our sins; and in him was
no sin." This rendering makes it very
clear that John was speaking of the walk
of Christ upon earth, and how that he
manifested the fact that no sin abode in
his being during his walk upon earth.
The verse following this one speaks of
our spiritual state in Christ. " Nrhoso-ever
ahideth in him sinneth not: whoso-ever
sinneth hath not seen him, neither
Len own him."
You will observe that it does i: ot teach
that there is no sinful nature existing in
those who abide in Christ, but that they
do not commit sin. It is in perfect har-mony
with the rest of the New Testa-ment
and with the experience of ever y
- body who is truly justified. W. G. S. -
For a few days past I have felt quite a
desire to write my experience with the
late heresy, for the benefit of the readers
of the Trumpet. I believe it will glorify
God in helping others, and relieve the
hearts of those whose prayers have no
doubt beeen ascending to God in my
behalf,
You are aware, I suppose, that my
companion in labor and father in the
gospel, has beparted from the truth as he
once knew it in his heart. I loved him so
much, and had such great confidence in
him, that when be began to teach the
heresy I received it. Before this time,
however, I had passed through some
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It always stirs the devil when the
Lord sends forth his ministers preaching
full salvation, and especially when they
show forth by the word of God that
people can. be sanctified by a second work
of grace; and it stirs him still more when
people get the experience of sanctifi-cation.
When you see men and women going
forth teaching that they were wholly
sanctified at the time their sins were par-doned,
you will find such persons are
either hypocrites or are deceived. It is
generally the case that when peoph
oppose sanctification as a second work of
grace it is because they have not the first
work of grace.
It is not every one that says, Lord,
Lord, will enter into the kingdom of
heaven; neither is every one a child of
God who shouts and claims holiness.
When people begin to take up with false
doctrines they get blinded to the truth
insomuch that they will lie, twist the
scriptures, and at the same time claim to
have a wonderful experience and say if
they are not right they are willing to be
shown their error; but_ when the truth
is given them they will not receive it
because of the false spirit which they
have imbibed.
AN EARNEST CALL.
I have for some time been reading
your gospel paper, also X. W. Byers'
book " The Grace of Healing." Now,
although your doctrine is a new one to
me, it is what I have always believed and
it is the Bible doctrine. What I want to
say is this: Is it possible that you could
send one of your ministers to Cheboygan
to open meetings? We can offer you
every encouragment, and you are the
very people we want here. Everything
is so dull here in regard to religion.
The M. E. church is in a very low state,
and there is no fire nor Holy Ghost
preaching; all seems to be done in a
form. We are just hungering and thirst-ing
to hear the gospel preached in its
fullness— will you help us? Will you do
all you can to send some one? There is
a building here and many friends like
myself, who are just waiting to do all in
their power to help.
Mrs. W. Ramshavr.
Cheboygan, Mich.
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order to secure clergy certificates for the
year 1900. I would advise all to have
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to travel on permits or not; for you are
not under obligations to apply for rates
because your name appears on the list.
Many, last year, did not think at the
beginning of the year that they would
need a permit, but afterward found that
they did, and made application after the
list was sent in, thus making much work
for us, and also for the associations. We
have concluded that the time for making
applications through us be from Oct. 15
to Dec. 15, 1899, thus giving us two
weeks to arrange, and have the list
printed and filed with the several associ-ations.
None need apply through us
only those who are actually ministers or
preachers; none need apply as missiona-ries
or helpers. De shall not feel under
obligation to entertain any application
made after the time specified above, by
those who know of this notice. None
bat the Central Association issue permits
to unordained ministers. Arrangements
for application through us are the same
as last year. B. Palmer.
A CALL TO TEN THOUSAND CONSECRATED
HEARTS.
While we were considering the state
of this dark world and the many millions
of lost souls in it, our heart was moved
with sympathy for them. And after
much prayer the Lord showed us to
make a call for ten thousand consecrated
hearts, who will be willing to donate ten
cents a week for one year to the free-literature
fund. This is a small sacrifice;
but when ten thousand respond, it will
amount to a thousand dollars a week;
fifty- two thousand dollars in a year.
With this amount of money we can send
books, tracts, Bibles, Testaments, etc.,
into thousands of homes where they
have never heard the name of Jesus.
Many of us have been saved from to-bacco,
from doctor bills, tea and coffee,
etc. I have sometimes wondered what
has become of all the money we formerly
spent for these useless things. I believe
that it should all - be used for the spread
of this glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
But we are not asking for all the money
thus saved, but only for ten cents a
week. And we pray God to lay a bur-den
of lost souls upon the hearts of all
his people, that they may take hold of
this matter out of love to God and sym-pathy
for lost souls.
Those desiring to give more than ten
cents a week can do so, but the call is
only for that amount. Those who do
not like to be bothered by remitting ten
cents every week, can pay ahead as far
as they like; and vv- here a whole church
resides in one community, they can
throw their ten- cent pieces together on
Lord's day and appoint some one of the
brethren to remit at the first of the
week. But care must be taken to give
the name of each contributor with the
address and amount contributed, that
proper credits may be made at the office.
When a single ton cents is sent ; n the
contributor will not receive a receipt
each week, as this would cost thousands
of dollars during the year for postage,
but at the end of each three months a
statement will be sent to each subscriber,
that he may know how his subscription
stands. Each contributor should keep a
record of what he sends in and compare
with the statement received each quarter.
Wm. G. Schell.
severe trials and testings nere in the city
that very much discouraged and weak-ened
me, and I went down under them.
I made several efforts to get out with
victory over the powers of hell, and the
Lord did wonderfully help me. Being
still weak, I was in no condition to cope
with the powers of darkness that were
about to come upon me. As the false
doctrine was preached I opened my
heart and drank it in. Soon the flood-gates
of hell were opened and the flames
of division, fault- finding, and uncharitable,
criticism began to burn in. my soul.
These things follow this pernicious doc-trine.
I tried to excuse myself and found
my failure upon the blunders and incon-sistencies
of others. I let go my hold on
God and began to really feed upon
others' failures. I knew that these
things did not come from a heart of love;
for " charity thinketh no evil."
When I saw myself in such darkness, I
began to seek the Lord. Oh, what a
mountain was before me I If I had not
had a real experience in the past, I would
have been driven almost to infidelity and
skepticism. Only the dear Lord knows
how many there are who are almost
ready to be dashed to pieces on the cruel
breakers of unbelief, because of those
who have fallen away after having
preached the two cleansings so definitely.
May God have mercy upon the honest
souls who have the fear of God in their
hearts. May God encourage, shield,
and protect them.
The darkness and confusion that sur-rounded
me was more awful than I can
tell. I prayed, fasted, and wept; but
God would not answer. I was asking
him to show me which way was right,
yet all the time ex pecting him to tell me
that the heresy was right. The Lord
had already- in tine past shown me the
right way and had made it clear n m
soul, and surely an undtangeahie
Would not show me one thing at one
time, and then contradict himself at an-other.
If I had not been so blind, I
could have seen the answer to my prayer
in my past ex peri ( elec. One horriille
feature of this delusion is that people in
some way or other actually deny what-
God has done for them. They must do this
in order to conform to the doctrine.
When I found l could not pray through
by myself, I went to a brother and sister
in whom I had great confidence, and
asked their help. For some few days
before this, although I was so blind, the
cry that involuntarily came up out of my
heart was, " 0 Lord, be merciful to me
a sinner!" I wanted to be saved. The
condemnation was awful, and it seemed I
could not repent. Without any ques-tionings
or disputings I asked them to
lay on hands that the enemy might be
rebuked, so that God could have mercy
upon me. I confessed my sin to God,
and he graciously forgave me all. I
began at once to seek a clean heart; and
in a short time God wonderfully broke
up my soul, and sanctified me wholly.
This experience with false doctrine
cost me so much anguish of heart and
distress of mind, that I never again want
to trifle with God's Spirit, or lightly
esteem what he has done for me. Dear
saints, it matters not how plausible a
doctrine may seem, it is tot to be trusted
if the Holy Spirit does not seal the sup-posed
truth. God did not say, " Try the
doctrines"; but, " Try the spirits."
When we get a good look at the spirit in
this heresy, we will see nothing but cruel
division, confusion, and many other
things that separate God's children and
tear asunder their affections. Oh, how
cruel is the enemy of souls! That which
binds God's children is not an earthly tie,
but a heavenly one; and the person who
disregards this bond lightly esteems the
blood that makes us one.
I thank God that I have been snatched
as a brand from the burning, and deliv-ered
from the snare of the fowler. I
am saved by two cleansings. My sins
are all blotted out and my guilt washed
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.
Moundsville, W. Va., Nov. 2, 1899.
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The week of prayer was a precious
season in communion with the Lord and
will doubtless result in the salvation of
many souls.
Bro. W. H. Cheatham and wife begin
meetings this week at Bethel Mission,
No. 19 20th St., Wheeling, W. Va.,
where they expect to continue for some
time. There is a bright prospect of a
good work being done in that city.
When the truth is being spread abun-dantly,
accompanied by the Spirit and
power of God, the devil goes about as a
roaring lion, seeki g whom he may
devour.
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
away. As a second work, my- heart is
made Pp ure by the removal of the old
nature. Continue to pray that I ma y be
kept from evil, and ever be found in the
ways of the Lord. E. A. Reardon.
What Pure Literature Does.
Norway Lake, Minn.
lady gave two copies of The Gospel
Trumpet to a Norwegian boy in the
train. This boy before this time was
saved, and got a ray of the evening
light, saw that sectism was not of God,
and has since lived in this light. He
also rre% As The Gospel Trumpet,. This boy
gave me two copies of the Trumpet, and
I subscribed rind have read it ever since.
I received this precious light on Bible
sanctification, and God has purified my
heart, and let me experience heart-cleansing.
Praise God! I am out of
sectism and out of Millennialism, and am
Very thankful to God that I got this
blessed paper and the books and tracts. 1
have sea tterd Gospel Trumpets far
around, and some have borne fruit.
There is a little church here of ten chil-dren
of God, all Norwegian. I am
severity years old. L. Christoffersen.
Muscatine, Iowa.
I am so glad that I can truly say that
I have been brought out of the mists and
fogs of sectish bewilderments into the
true light. I was a member of the
United Brethren sect for a number of
years, then a member of the Campbell-ites
a short time, then back to the United
Brethren. I was in this twenty- nine
years. I attended meetings of many
denominations, then attended union ser-vices,
truly desiring to find real food for
lily soul; and then at last I was about
to join the W inebrennarian , sect. I
had sent my name in on a slip of
Paper, and they could not pass their
judgments on our names that night
whether we were worthy to join, and
left the business part of the meeting until
another night. I had seen the sin of
, the other sects just as it is in. Rev. 18: 2,
but I was deceived by the name " church
of God" which they all called them-selves.
Praise the dear Lord that before
the next appointment, when we were to
be taken into their church if we had been
Considered worthy by them, the Lord
directed one of his precious little tracts to
Our house. It was" Questions and Answers
Lititz, Pa.
I was praying and longing for two
years, as near as I know, to be with a
man who served the Lord; and then The
Gospel Trumpet was sent to our town,
and led Bro. M. L. Baker to Grand
Junction camp- meeting. He came back
full of joy. He brought tracts and gave
me some. The one that did the work
was " The Apostasy." One Sunday
afternoon after Sunday- school I took the
little tract and commenced reading. It
began to get warm for me and I was
tempted to throw it away. Then the
Spirit suggested to me, " You are seeking;
now accept" and I did. Praise the
good Lord! I am happy in the Lord.
I have found what I was seeking. Pray
for me and our place. Isaac Becker.
Greelyville, S. C.
I had a copy of the Gospel Trumpet
given me last February. There was an
article in it showing that the Missionary
- Baptist denomination is not the church
of God. Well, I had been a member of
that church for years. I read the piece
carefully, and it led me out in the true
light. Please pray that I be kept close
to God. Maggie A. Tobias.
Wittens, Ohio.
About two years ago I heard some of
Your people preach the gospel in its pur-ity,
and I subscribed for the Trumpet.
It has given me a great deal of light and
encouragement, together with your books
and tracts. Pray that I may be en-lightened
more. Geo. W. Galliher.
Allegheny, Pa,.
I was saved about six years ago, while
a member of ' the Presbyterian sect. It
was not anything I heard there that
drew me to God, but it was my own
honesty. In my room one night I was
saved; God gave me a very clear witness
in my soul that my sins were all for-given.
I lived up to all the light I had
for a time, until some one told me of
an old boat ( Floating Bethel) that was in
the river, and that meetings were held
on it nightly. I went one night, and it
was there that I met for the first time
our dear and departed Bro. Warner.
He showed me so much love and meek-ness
in all his ways, that I found his life
was very different from what I had ever
heard or seen in the old sect.
It was Bro. Warner that put the first
Trumpet in my hand. By it I saw the
testimonies of God's people, and read
the several articles on holiness. These
let me see that there was something for
me far beyond anything I had ever heard
in the sect, with their cold and formal
ways. With this I began to make in-quiries
into . the church question. Then
Bro. Warner recommended to me the
book " The Biblical Trace of the
Church" by W. G. Schell. I do praise
God for this book, for it was through it
that I came to discern the body of
Christ. It let me see that what I once
thought was the church of God was
nothing but a part of old Mother Rome.
Dear brother, there is no part of that
book that I could hold up more than
another; for it has all been very dear to
my soul, and through this book I came
into the evening light. There were
other tracts from which I learned some
very precious truths, and which helped
me a great deal. At this time I was a
believer in the Millennium doctrine. I
thought that it was right until I read the
tract " The Millennium doctrine Refut
ed" by D. S. Warner.
Dear brother, I do remember how God
witnessed in my soul and the blessing I
got when I sat with my Bible in one
hand. and the tract in the other, compar-ing
the Word with the tract. It showed
me to prepare for judgment; not for a
Millennium age, or reign with Christ for
a thousand years after he comes. I am
praising God that I am reigning with him
now. Praise his name forever! So
these are the books that led me into the
light. They are all very dear to the
believer's soul. William Hall.
on the Church." - When we read it, I
discerned the Lord's body, and from that
time to this, father, mother, one sister,
and myself have not been in sectism, but
can all praise God for true salvation and
the oneness in his dear Son.
Ida M. Mackley.
1355 Harvard 8t., Cleveland, 0.
In January, 1888 my brother- in- law
sent me two Gospel Trumpets, which I
eagerly read and liked very much. The
following February I was taken sick. I
felt that it was a chastening from the
Lord, meant to bring me into perfect
submission and obedience to him; but I
knew not how to get just where the Lord
wanted me. More than three years pre-vious
to this the dear Lord had by his
divine power and through his love and
mercy, wonderfully healed me of several
afflictions. From that time I had taken
Jesus for my only physician. And now
when affliction came upon me I realized
that I must get straight with God and be
healed, or else I would never recover—
there was no hope for me only in Jesus.
So in my distress I wrote a letter to Bro.
Warner, the editor of the papers which I
had received, telling my condition both
spiritual and physical, and asking if some
one could not come to my help. He
kindly published my letter and added a
note, asking if some minister could not
come to me.
In May Bro. B. N. Longerbone and
wife came and stayed with me, and held
meetings two weeks. The dear Lord
wonderfully healed me while they were
there, but I did not get perfectly clear in
my soul. Through them I heard of a
camp- meeting that would be held at
Beaver Dam, Ind., the coming August.
The Lord opened the way and I went,
and praise the dear Lord, there my soul
was set free from all the error and con
fusion in which it was. Oh, I do praise
his precious name, which is worthy! He
has kept me ever since saved from 0
sin, and the way grows brighter and bet-ter;
and I love the blessed holy way
better all the time. Nettie Henderson.
Kensington, Kans.
The first glimmer of the present light
that dawned upon me was in the fall of
1892, by reading a. Gospel Trumpet,
printed at Grand Junction, Mich. I
borrowed it from a neighbor, and it was
so highly prized by the one that lent it
to my neighbor, that I had to promise to
give it back to him as soon as I was
through reading it.
I was then a Methodist. I saw that
The Gospel Trumpet was on the Bible
line. Although I belonged to the Method-ist
organization yet I was following the
Lord as closely as I could in that organi-zation,
and intended to stay there till I
saw a people that obeyed the Lord in all
things as he commanded in his word.
After I read the first Trumpet that I ever
saw, I began to wish God would send
one of his ministers here to preach to us.
The Lord sent to us a brother whom he
used in getting us saved from sin, sectism,
free to do the whole will of God. Now
I am not in any of the churches organized
by man. But I am born into the church
of. God, organized and governed by God,
Jesus Christ being the chief corner- stone.
God himself is the light of it. Oh, the
glory of God's church! No man can
describe it it was reading the first
Gospel Trumpet I ever saw that caused
me to discern the Lord's body. 1 Cor.
11: 29. Also by reading more of" the lit-eratnre
I was made to search the scrip-tures
much. I read the Bible through
from beginning to end, and had very
little time to read newspapers of a
worldly nature. Jesus said, " My sheep
hear my voice, . . . and they follow
me." Yes, I praise God for giving me
an ear to hear him; for as I was follow-ing
him in the M. E. sect to what light
I had, his voice said, " Come out of
her, my people" and I came out of her
fully. Rev. 18: 1. Frank P. Dimm.
long; because her unparalleled fertility
and consequent populousness promised a
speedy recovery after a downfall. Shall
that country, which was so long, so univer-sally,
and so justly called the granary of
the world, have any other than a dense
population? And, if numerous, shall
strength be wanting to recover her free
dom? It was more improbable of Egypt.
than of any other spot of earth, the t
strangers should always rule and wa-it,
because of its situation. The Mediter-ranean
on one side, the Red Sea on an-other,
impassable deserts on another,
promise great defense. But the total
inundation of the whole country by the
Nile, during a part of every year, ( which
the, inhabitants are prepared to meet,
whilst an invading army never can be,)
would surely aid even a weak people to
defend themselves. But the Lord said
her exaltation was ended, and that her
future recovery was prohibited. The
Babylonians, then the Persians, next the
Macedonians, the Romans, the Saracens,
the Mamelulies, and finally the. Turks
have protracted her subjugation and her
servitude down to the present day! She
has often made the attempt, but never
succeeded to free herself. She has been
under and always under, low and always
low. She has been kept the basest of
kingdoms; servile, stupid, treacherous,
cruel and base in character! - We know
of no part of the earth which has not
governed itself, or been free some part
of the last twenty- four hunderd years,
except that : part, which from its location,
fertility, and internal resources, seemed
most likely to continue independent all
the time! We do not know the other-wise
considerable nation, which has been
thus debased for half that time, but the
one seemingly of all others most capable
of self- defense.
2d.— When Ezekiel lived, had we
been there, and about to invent a highly
political or historic improbability, could
we have thought of a greater one, than
to suppose that the idols mid images
should cease out of Egypt? What?
Shall we conjecture this of those who
were so strangely prone to worship any-thing
but God? Serpents, unicorns,
cattle, reptiles, no matter what it was,
they kneeled before it.
It was a strange prediction to speak of
causing images or idols to cease in a land
where continued baseness is to prevail;
because we spontaneously couple together
in our minds ignorance, images, filth,
idols, and sensuality.
Images have long since ceased there.
Their idols have long since been de-stroyed.
The Christian ( in name only)
Who lives there, and the Turk who rules
there, equally disdain to kneel before
wood or stone, living animals, or painted
statues.
3d.— It was strikingly probable, '
from all former history, and from all
historic analogy, that Egypt would, al
some time have a native ruler, even
should that ruler hold a borrowed or
deputed authority. May not one of her
sons sit a prince upon that throne,
although he be a tributary prince? May
MA her native lords govern there, no
matter how exorbitant the tribute?
There has never been a prince of the
land of Egypt. Their rulers have been
sent to them. Strangers have sent _ their
slaves to be governors of the land of
Egypt.
th
It has not been her own sons, who in
e pride of self- exaltation, have drained _,
the treasures of Egypt. It has always
been by the hands of strangers that she
his been wasted.
Application.— If we inquire of the
believers who live now ( not merely of
the, uncultivated, but of the most noted
for talents and professional eminence)
whether they have not been surprised on
reflecting that these_ things were said of
one nation only, aid that out of, all the
nations of the earth, of one, only they
have happened to be true, and that for
so' ma. ny, generations, we find that . they
INFIDELITY.
THE GREAT AND THE LEARNED DO NOT AC-QUAINT
THEMSELVES WITH BIBLE FACTS.
ITEM 5.— Egypt.-- All the early his-tory
of Egypt, so impressively foretold
by the prophets, we pass over, and come
at once down to the particulars that are
accomplishing at present— to those things
which have been fulfilling in all recent
years, as well as in ancient days. W e
may notice those predictions concerning
Egypt, which the reader, whether young
or old, has lived to see fulfilled.
The words of Ezekiel: " And I will
bring again the captivity of Egypt, and
I will cause them to return into the land of
Pathros, and they shall be there a base
pleb, low] kingdom. And it shall be the
basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it.
exalt itself any more above the nations,
for I will diminish them that they shall
no more rule over the natiOni. And
will make the rivers dry, and sell the
land into the bands of the Wicked, and I
will make the land waste and all that is
therein, by the hand of strangers, I the
Lord have spoken it, I will also destroy
their idols, and I will cause their images
to cease out of Noph, and there shall be
no more a prince of the land of Egypt."
— Chaps. 29, 30.
We remark 1st.— It was very unlikely
to human apprehension. that Egypt
should be the lowest of kingdoms always.
Of all other nations, it was most unlikely
that Egypt should be depressed very.
Requests for Prayer.
Pray for Codelia Copeland, of Missouri,
for healing of deafness. -
Pray for William W. White, of Delaware,
for salvation.
Pray for Mrs. L. E., Hadlock, of Wiscon-sin,
for the healing of gravel.
Pray for of Sister Willie Ann Rush, of
Mississippi, who desires to be saved.
Pray for my healing of chills, and for my
baby who has fever. S. A. Herring.
Pray for my poor old mother, nearly 84
years of age, who has cancer. William
Cook. -
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THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
Greenville, Mo., Oct. 19.
Once more we can report victory
through him who loved us and gave
himself for us. Since our last report we
have held meeting at the following
places: Kingston, Mo.; Muscatine,
Iowa; and Clinton, Iowa. We closed
meeting a few days ago at this place
with victory for God. We had the
privilege of meeting Sister Nora Arm-strong,
and Bros. White and Fowler.
W hen the judgments of God went forth
to victory, several souls came to the altar
and sought pardon. At this, the secta-rians
seeing their craft in danger, became
greatly enraged; and the Lord permitted
us to bear some persecution for his
name's sake in the way of stones and
eggs, which were thrown through the
windows and at the vehicles going to and
from service. God protected us and no
damage was done, with the exception of
a few slight bruises from the stones.
But despite all the opposition, many
friends were won to the truth, and a few
were saved and followed the Lord in
baptism. The Baptist meeting- house at
this place is now open for the truth, and
any of God's workers passing this way
will receive a hearty welcome. Truly,
dear brethren, the dragon is loosed out
of his prison, and his pagan worship
is fast appearing on the stage of action;
so let us be true to God and to each
other, and fight the battle through for
him who gives us the victory. Praise his
name! Oh, for more love and power to
win precious souls to Jesus! We can
realize to- day of a truth that " all things
work together for good to them that
love God." D. 0. Teasley and Co.
THE TOPEKA MISSION.
Meriden, Kans., Oct. 18.
Dear Saints of God: May the Lord
bless you all with " great grace." e
have felt for some time to encourage you
to a life of greater self- denial and econ-omy
for the sake of precious souls. When
we see on every side of ns the need of
financial aid and in pressing forward the
cause of Christ, surely it should receive
our earnest consideration and prayerful
attention; and help us to deepen our con-secration
into activity. Those not called
into the vineyard of the Lord as preachers,
teachers, and gospel helpers may look to
the Lord in earnest prayer to give them
employment suited to their ability-, that
they may supply their own needs, and
have something for the cause of Christ,
not just what happens to be left over,
but a portion that shall make them real-ize
that their talents and time are truly
consecrated to God.
It is so natural to try to plan our lives
for our own ease and comfort, and for-get
that thereby some poor souls may
fail to'receive the good news of salvation
and spend an eternity in woe, that we
need often to bestir ourselves and " exer-cise
ourselves toward godliness" in self-denial
and love to souls. As Jesus laid
down his life that we should live, so we
must have the same spirit and yield oar
lives in service to others.
Dear workers, how much re-sponsibility
rests upon us in encouraging
to activity even the weakest ones? Not
long ago in meditating upon God's work
and workers, my mind seemed to be
carried very forcibly along the line of
how weak and ignorant the best of gos-pel
workers had once been. How they
had been pressed out little by little from
one responsibility to another, until they
became efficient laborers in the Lord's
vineyard through his grace and power.
Then I saw how unwisely we sometimes
act regarding this matter. If workers are
desired, we wish for the very best and
most experienced, and if they fail to
come, we are disappointed and the work
is hindered. Observing this so forcibly
made me " look at home" and, lo and
behold, we had dear little ones who
longed to work for the Master, but felt
so weak that they needed encouragement
to activity, and the work was waiting for
good workers. We learned our lesson,
applied it to ourselves, and waited on the
Lord, and he made things clear and
pressed us forward to his glory.
The Topeka Mission is now open— a
two- story building with basement. On
the first floor is the chapel and book- room
with Sister Smith to keep it open and
receive all that would enter for any kind
of help. Bro. and Sister Stonebreaker
occupy a back room as father and mother,
and Bro. Duncan holds evening service.
W hat else is needed we know God will
supply.
The basement is designed as eating-room
for the needy. The second floor
has five nice rooms for workers or those
needing care. House- to- house work is
much needed, and we pray God to give
us those suited for the. work. The house
expense is $ 25 a month, and much is
needed for furnishing rooms and providing
eatables. We believe this work is here
to stay, and ask you to take it to the
Lord in' prayer, and see what the Lord
would have you do to move it forward.
No doubt twenty- five willing workers
could give a dollar a month toward the
rent, and leave the workers here more
free for other services; for we expect to
do with our might what our hands find
to do.
We fully believe God has a great field
of usefulness for Topeka, and by faith we
see " things not lawful to utter" as the
secret is with the Lord. The beginning
has been slow, but we have, been learning;
and the Lord is very, patient with his
little ones, although discouragement has
nearly cast us down several times, and
some have wondered and waited before
coming to' our aid. -
Dear- saints, do not wait until a work
is flourishing before you lend a helping
hand, but look to the Lord for direction,
and labor in faith and love. Those desir-ing
to aid ns, address Sister Anna B.
Smith, Gospel Mission, 212 N. Kansas
Ave., Topeka, Kans.
Jennie C. Rutty.
Testimonies
I was healed of rheumatism and a
cough by obeying James 5: 14, 15. I
praise the dear Lord for what he has
done for me. Also praise him for such
a book as the Bible. I am - sanctified
and healed. Jennie Letner.
Rockport, Ky.
I was sick and I called for an elder of
tile' church; he anointed me and I was
healed. I praise God for sanctifying me,
and . hekling me of what' the doctors said
was consumption. I desire to spread the
news all I can. Belle Duluth
Wichita, Kans.
I am saved and kept by power divine.
It is by faith that I am kept by his
power. I do find that it is so sweet to
trust in Jesus and take, him for our heal-er
of both soul and body. I praise
the Lord that I did hear and heed the
call " Come out of her, my people" into
the one body, the church of the living
God, which is the bride of Christ. I can
say with rejoicing in my heart that the
Lord has completely and thoroughly
saved me from sectism, and has released
me from the snares of the enemy of my
soul. Praise his dear name! I do
thank the Lord deep down in my heart
for ever sending some of his true and
tried ones to the town where I lived to
labor and plead for the salvation of poor
lost and deceived souls like myself, and
that he did hear and answer their earnest
prayers. I am willing to follow whith-ersoever
he leadeth. David M. Baker.
Please pray Nov. 1 for Chas. McCarty, of
Toronto, Ont., whose lower limbs are use-less
from a spinal trouble. Wm. Farnan.
Pray for the healing a Susie Roister, of
Logan, Ohio, who has a cancer that is eat-ing
away her breast and slowly taking
her life.
Tidmore, Ala. Please pray earnestly for
my husband who is so bitterly opposed to
the truth. He has left me; pray that he
may be brought to a knowledge of the
truth, and that we be again united. Pray
also for my sick baby and that I hold out
faithful under all opposition. Vianna Lee.
Calls for Meetings. -
Charleston, S. C. Bro. and Sister Jones
will gladly welcome to their home any of
the saints led to that place.
Harman, Randolph Co., W. Va. I desire
some one called of God to come here and
hold meetings. Write to Charlotte E.
Jones.
Phoenix, Ariz. We would like to have
some of God's ministers come to Arizona
and hold meetings, as we feel that there is
a work here for some one to do. Bailie
Ryder.
Franklin, Ark. I expect to start south
about Nov. 20 to preach the gospel in south-ern
fields. We will go through Memphis,
Tenn. Those on the way that desire us to
stop and hold meetings, will please corre-spond
with us at Franklin, Ark. Samuel
Ford. -
Meeting Notices,
Summerville, S. C. Beginning Nov. 2.
Assembly meeting. J. F. Lundy, J. L.
Pike, Noah Duncan, and other ministers are
expected, and it is hoped that there may be
a large attendance of the saints. Summer-ville
is on the Southern R. R., 22 miles
west of Charleston. For further - informa-tion
address D. T. Washington, Summer-ville,
S. C., or R. J. Smith, 179 Line St.,
Charleston, S. C.
Colfax, Wash. Beginning Nov. 2, to
hold over two Sundays. Assembly meeting.
The meeting will be held at the usual place,
10 miles south of Colfax. Persons coming
by the 0. R. and N. R. R. will stop at Col-fax.
Notify J. B. Conover. Those coming
by the N. P. R. R. will stop at Pullman.
ENlobetritfoyn , A W. aBsh. . Peternian. J. C. Benton,
Macedonia, Tenn. Beginning Nov. 3, to
continue ten days. Assembly meeting.
Bro. Noah Duncan is desired, and whomso-ever
the Lord may send. The nearest rail-road
station is Athens, Tenn. Address
Bro. G. W. Guffey, Piketon, Tenn.
Lakeview, MBiecghinn. in6g Nov. 4.
Meetings conducted by Bro. Peter Mittie.
Let all come to do good and get good.
E. A. Soules.
Lena Station, La. Nov. 10- 19. Assem-bly
meeting. This meeting is to be held
at Campbell Creek meeting- house, 5 mi.
south of Lena Sta. and 8 mi. west of Boyce.
We are praying that the Lord send some
northern brethren to assist in this meeting,
and we hope to have a good attendance.
For further information address Robt. Mar-tin
or Wesley Knight, Lena Station, La.
Grand Junction, Mich. Beginning Nov.
14, to hold over two Sundays. Assembly
meeting. This meeting will be held on
the camp- ground, one mile north of the
station. Those wishing to be met at the
station should write to Bro. W. B. Grover,
Grand Junction, Mich. We expect a feast
- of good things. A. B. Palmer.
Caringer, Tenn. Beginning Nov. 20, to
last as lloonngg as the Lord wills. Assembly
meeting. All lovers of the truth are in-vited
to come. Bro. Thos. Carter and wife
will be here. Other ministers expected.
For information write to me at Caringer.
M. N. Roark.
Dixon, Miss. Beginning Dec. 23, to last
as long as the Lord wills. Assembly meet-ing.
This place is 26 mi. from the Bale
road. We need help. For further infor-mation
address J. B. Strickland, Dixon, Miss.
St. Paul, S. C. Beginning Nov. 23, to
hold over two Sundays. Assembly- meeting.
This place is 24 miles south of Sumter, on
the Atlantic Coast- line R. R. We hope to
have a good attendance. Come praying.
For further information address R. J.
Smith, 179 Line St., Charleston, S. C.
Federalsburg, Md. Beginning Nov. 23,
to continue over two Sundays. Assem-bly-
meeting. Federalsburg is on the
eastern shore of Maryland near the Dela-ware
state- line, and on the Delaware divi-sion
of the Pennsylvania R. R. Any one
coming by way of Baltimore will take
steamer at Pier 4 for Choptank and notify
us, and we will meet them. Those coming
by way of Philadelphia will take Pennsylva-nia
R. R. to Federalsburg. If God has
ministers that can come to help in this
meeting, they will please write us at once.
For further information address Chas. E.
Orr, Federalsburg, Md.
Hartsells, Ala. Beginning Nov. 25, to
last as long as the Lord wills. Assembly-meeting.
This meeting will be held at
Zion on the camp ground, 5 miles east of
Hartsells. All lovers of the truth are in-vited.
Bro. Noah Duncan is expected to
attend. • We desire others also. E. W.
Sharp, Somersville, Ala.
Plattsburg, Miss. Beginning Dec. 8, to
last as long as the Lord wills. This meet-ing
is to be held in the saints' new meeting-house.
Those wishing to come and stay
during the meeting will come - prepared to
take care of themselves, as Bro. W. J.
Gentry has engaged five houses and one
tent to be used. If any wish to be met at
the station they will please notify Bro.
Gentry in time,- and he will meet them at
Kosciusko, or McCool. All are invited.
For further information address W. J.
Gentry, Plattsburg, Miss.
Augusta, Ga. Beginning Dec. 22, to last
as long as the Lord wills. Assembly- meet-ing.
All ministers and workers are espe-cially
invited, and all that desire a soul-benefit
be sure to come. Bros. Pike, J. F.
Lundy, and R. J. Smith are expected to be
present. This will be the general assembly-meeting
for the south. J. L. Edwards.
Obituary.
CUMMINS.— Bro. George E. Cummins
was born December, 1860; died Oct. 22,
1899. He leaves a wife, four sons, and two
daughters. He died triumphant in the liv-ing
faith. He trusted God to the end.
May God bless his saved wife, and lead the
unsaved into the way of life.
F. W. Cocerham.
Baker City, Ore.
HAKE.— Frank A. Hake, son of P. F.
and Mary Hake, died Sept. 11; aged 29 yr.
Bro. Frank was saved last April, and lived
up to all the light he had until God saw fit
to call him home. He died in the faith,
leaving a bright evidence that all was well.
May the dear Lord ' bless the parents and
prepare them to meet him is my prayer.
William N. Suavely.
Adville, Ala.
CONWAY.— Mrs. Susan P. Conway, wife
of W. W. Conway, was born July 26, 1834;
died Oct. 11, 1899. She had been blind for
nearly five years. She fell out at the door
and was badly hurt, and lived fifteen days
afterward. A part of the time she- suffered
intense pain, but bore it all patiently. She
accepted the truth nearly six years ago.
She was ever a friend to the poor and
needy, and was kind to all. She expressed
a willingness to depart and be with Jesus.
Wilson W. Conway.
have never meditated on such points.
Of these and of similar facts, almost
countless in extent, they know nothing,
and they do not inquire. Yet either
openly or in their heart they are scoffers.
Men are slow and backward to inform
themselves of anything on the side of
truth ( in matters of religion), but slight
and superficial objections: weak but
plausible theories against the Bible, they
learn speedily, they understand instantly,
and they remember always. It is
supposed on good evidence, that no son
of Adam was ever known to forget an in-genious,
and seemingly correct argument
against Christianity ( once heard) so long
as he retained his mind.
The conclusion is that men love dark-ness
rather than light.-- Nelson.
News from the Field
Moundsville, W. Va.
We expect to start down the Ohio
River holding meetings along the way
going as far as Kentucky; then to Vir-ginia,
if the Lord so directs. We shall
be glad to hear from those along the line
who desire meetings.
G. T. Clayton and Co.
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Divine Healing.
Prayer Answered.
I am so glad to testify to- the
good Lord has done for me. - He
me day by day, and I do praise litin
his healing power. Last eVenine
and hurt my foot badly. I was at the
store and from that time I could scarcely
have any weight on that foot. It' ivas
all I could do tO get home, and when I
took my shoe off the foot was very pain-.
ful. I wondered what I would do, and:
there was- something told me to trust
God, so I went to praying. I was re=
lieved of the pain and I went to sleep.
In the morning I got up to work, and
my foot has not pained me since. It is
wonderful what God will do for us if we,
will trust him. Pray for me.
Rachel A. Sanger.
Indiana Mineral Springs, Oct. 21.
An Afflicted Limb Healed.
I thank God for what he has done for
me. ' W hen I was about eight years of
age I was troubled with, hip- joint disease.
My hip came out of place, and about
twelve months after it was put in place
an ulcer came on it, which bothered me
for three or four years. I took Hood's
Sarsaparilla, and it healed it up; but: I
still suffered untold agony with that limb.
Sometimes I could not walk at all. In
August, 1899, about two months ago; I
appealed to God for help. My father,
mother, and my oldest sister joined me in
prayer, together with Christians else-where.
I thank God for the victory. I
am now healed. That limb is as'strong
as any of the rest. - I ask the prayers of
all Christian people. I am now sixteen
years of age. I suffered for eight years,
but will no longer suffer with that limb.
I thank God for what he has done for
me. Annie L. Byrum.
Bo8ley, H. Oct. 9.
Healed, Where Doctors and Medicines Failed.
I feel led of the Lord to write to the
Trumpet and the dear ones in Christ of
the wonderful healing power of the
blessed Lord in healing my wife and
baby. Thanks be unto God that wife
and I got into a position that we both
believed that they could be healed. The
devil tried to discourage us, and through
his agents false rumors came to us of the
dear ones, whom we are commanded to
send for in Jas. 5: 14. We payed no
attention to the plans or devices of the
devil, and I prayed more earnestly with
no desire to give lap, but to put all in the
Lord's hand. I sent word to Brother
Orr, according to Jas. 5: 14, and Brother
and Sister Orr came to Brother Baker's
near here, and wife and baby met them
there. They were anointed and prayed
over, and praise the dear Lord they were
healed. My wife was troubled with a
misery in her stomach, and almost every-thing
she ate gave her pains, and severe
it times. Doctors' medicines gave
; cared .), any relief. Praise the Lord, the
pains left her and she can eat what she
wants and things she could not eat before
Ind they do not hurt her. Baby is getting
. long si 1 ziclidly and s fat and healthy
filchi better than before, when We
. ised medicine. Praise the Lord! We
nave no more use for doctors' medicine.
But we trust the Great Physician, whose
3zime is above all names and his mercy
3ndureth to all generations: Dear
saints, it is a glorious thing to know that
God can and does heal us, and that we
2an pray for him to' rebuke the devil,
and know that he does. We have greater
faith in God than ever, and realize that
we are living closer to him than. ever
before. Our prayers are that we may
grasp hold of the promises more and
pray him to rebuke the devil in his at-)
tempts to discourage us and that we may
continue steaafast in the truth and, say
amen to God's will, not ours-'-
and sisters, let us pray One for InOthe;'
that our faith be steadfast, and that
others may live and grow in grace that
they may get where God can open their
eyes on divine healing, and that his heal-ing
power may be made manifest among
them, as with us. John H. Griffith.
11' d., Oct. 8, 1899.
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Anxiety and Faith.
- THERE are many things we can study
great advantage in the notice of
their contrasts: in fact, there are some
things that are difficult to apprehend,
except by studying them negatively, and
by- finding what they- are not our minds
are aided in grasping what they are.
Anxiety and faith are just the opposite
of each other, and by looking at them
contrastively we may get deeper insights
to both and be aided in loosing the one
and acquiring the other.
1.: Aindety has its center in the creature,
but faith has its center in God. Every-thing
has a center to it, and this applies
to mental and moral principles as truly
as to forms of matter or living things.
Anxiety could never form a part of the
experience of an immortal soul unless it
were in some way depending on created
beings or things. Reason is the parent
of anxiety, for when reason does not act
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit it
invariably leads to distrust of some kind.
And reason looks at the creature, at
friends or foes, at circumstances and
probabilities, at laws of nature and the
prospects, and seeing only the realm of
the natural it can never produce perfect
confidence.
On the other hand faith pierces through
all creatures, and all circumstances, and
fastens itself upon an infinite, universal
God, who is in all, and through all, and
who knows all and superintends all.
Faith is the eye of the human spirit
looking at God, and in a certain lofty
sense, ignoring everything but God.
That incomprehensible invention known
as the X- ray will pierce through planks,
or hundreds of pages of paper
or any amount of flesh, and reveal
the center of every object the first of all,
so that the observer looking through the
lens sees the bones of a man before he
sees the flesh. This beautifully illustrates
the principles of inspired faith. It pierces
through thick walls of circumstance and
phenomena and sees God, first of all,
reposing at the center of all- events and
beings, and looks at other things as they
are related to God. If thoughtful per-sons
will stop to examine every anxious
feeling they have had, and trace it to its
starting - point, they will find it is centered
in some creature and not in the Creator.
2. Anxiety exists in the wants of a
fallen state, but faith has its origin in the
fullness of the provisions of God. If it
had not been for the fall of man the
human mind would never have been tor-tured
with anxiety, for there never would
have been any abnormaL or fictitious
wants, but only such legitimate needs as
the Creator found, and these would have
met a counterpart supply without the
intervention of foreboding or questioning
fears. The fallen condition of the soul
makes it have many overreaching desires
and an excessive feeling of want, as a rag-ing
fever produces many abnormal wants
in a sick person. The reason is busy
With these wants and is constantly
searching for ways and means to gratify
them, and in doing this it sees only the
changes of human life, it sees the thou-sands
of instances where these wants are
not supplied, and this creates anxiety,
and furthermore, the more these wants
are brooded upon the more exorbitant
they grow until the natural life becomes
a series of Multiplied wants.
On the other hand faith goes out from.
the ceature and looks upon the fullness
of God; it searches into his character,
his benevolence, his inexhaustible fullness
to supply the mind and affections, and
sees in everwidening oceans not only the
relouicesOf God but hid loving willing-
,
ness to supply his creatures, and this in-terior
vision of the fullness of God de-stroys
anxiety. The very looking at our
wants, unless it be through the fullness
of God's supply, will produce anxiety.
We often multiply our wants by looking
at them, and faith alone can counteract
this principle of distress; for just as our
fallen state makes short- sighted reason
its ally, so faith is God's ally in. the
soul, and it alone can rest in the fullness
of God.
3. Anxiety is bounded by the vision
of the natural perceptions and is attached
to things around it, but faith has a won-derful
expansiveness to it, and is attached
to God's will wherever that will May be
found anywhere in the universe. The
natural reason is near- sighted and sees
things only that affect the present hour
and emergency; it sees things frag-mentary,
and so is perplexed at the mis-haps
and complications of men and
things; it attaches itself to this or that
thing or enterprise, and when there is a
collapse or disappointment it is in con-sternation.
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On the other hand faith is long vi-sioned
and is expanded wherever God
exists, and firmly attached to his will, so
that it does not cling to any creature,
or circumstance, or nation, or human
creed or church, or earthly props, but is
internally untied to God himself, and
thus it can use the present order of the
world without abusing it, and easily let
go all things and circumstances to follow
God. St. Peter, describing the fullness
of the graces, says " he that lacks these
graces is blind and near- sighted, so that
he can not see afar off."
Anxiety is near- sighted, but faith has
a telescopic vision and sees things afar
off, and looks at passing events, from
the standpoint of eternity, as they will
appear a thousand years hence. Hence
anxiety results from seeing all creatures
and events out of their proper propor-tion;
it sees things to be giants, which
faith, looking at in the light of eternity,
regards only as tiny insects.
4. Anxiety is always changing its
objects, but faith has no change of
object, and its only change is to increase
and intensify. Human reason, which is
the instent of anxiety, fixes its hope
first on this person then on that, first on
this party or goverment, or enterprise, or
prospect, and then. on that. Hence
anxiety is like a person crossing a river
on floating blocks of ice, stepping on this
one hopingit will float him over, but find-ing
that it is melting or sinking he steps
on another, and so all through life the
mind never reaches a solid repose.
On the other hand faith has got down
through the shifting sands on the earth's
surface and is anchored in the primeval
rock of God and his word; it never
changes its object and has no desire to
change, for resting in an infinite God it
spurns even the thought of change.
There is no need of any change in the
blue dome_ of the sky, or the white light
of the sun, or the blue waves of the sea,
or the law of gravitation, because these
things are all sufficient; and- the birds in
the sky and the fish in the sea have no
thought of wanting a change in the
constitution of the sky or sea, so when
faith has found its abiding place in God
it never dreams of wishing to change its
object, but will, to' all eternity find its
sufficiency in him, and the more it ex-
Pa, nds, and apprehends God the farther it
gets from ever wanting to change the
center of its rest.
5. Anxiety, resulting from various
reasonings, is always manifold and com-plex
and divided into many forms and
things, but faith is united and simple.
. . Professed Christians who think
they have perfect faith in God manifest
a religious anxiety by quizzing into the
Antichrist theories of second probation,
annihilation, conditional immortality,
the restoration of devils, Swedenborgian
denial of the resurrection, Christian
Science, mind- reading,- higheT criticism,
the mere moral theory of the atonement,
physical immortality before death, holi-ness
by keeping the Jewish law, and
other unscriptural theories which are
complex and soul- puzzling, producing
only an argumentative state of mind and
a feverish state of the heart, showing
that the whole system of their religion
has dragged its anchor from pure faith in
God to the fluctuating sands of reason.
When the believer has been crucified, un-til
not one trace of selfishness or self- will
remains, God himself then becomes the
only object of his unchanging faith, the
three persons of the God- head are foun-tains
of unchangeable comfort and peace,
and perfect faith in God unites all other
principles of the mind in quietness and
harmony like the seven colors that are
united in a ray of pure light.
Perfect faith in God is a miracle of
simplicity, and reduces all things in life
to a state of simplicity; the reason, the
judgments, the affections, the words, the
labors of such a soul move in straight
lines under the dominion of a supernat-ural
and simple faith which in every
thing shuns the complex and seeks for
the plain and transparent. Hence we
notice people whose religion is mixed up,
and who are trying to live by their reason
are always uneasy, there is a chronic
distress in their lives, a vacillation in
their service of God, and a fruitless effort
to find happiness in somebody or some-thing
apart from. God himself. But per-fect
faith in God has a sweet satisfaction
in it; it drinks continually from the sun-bright
fountains of God himself through
the person of Christ and by the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit. If a little pool of
water should set its, eye on the dry air,
and the cloudless sky, and the dusty
earth, it might faint under the thought
of drying up, and be in deep distress; but
if it could see the ocean and perceive the
constant evaporation of millions of tons
of moisture going up in the air, its
anxiety about drying up would pass
away. Thus the soul that in perfect
faith gazes on the ocean of God is kept
from uneasiness and inward distress of
heart, for it lives on what it sees in God
and not on the appearance of things.
6. The principle of reason is always
struggling to achieve results, but the
principle of faith accomplishes the great-est
results by harmonizing with God and
working through him. Not only are,
unsaved people full of anxiety, but great
multitudes who are serving God allow
their reason to take the place- of faith,
and so the so- called churches, the camp-meetings,
the Christian conventions and
missions present a scene of so much
human planning, and wire- pulling, and
partiality, and cliques, . and sets, and
boards where half- believing or make-believing
people are taxing their wits with
policy, and plans, and. fears, to bring
things to pass, as they think, for the
glory of God; but when they are tried
in the fire, or ground to powder, there
is hardly an ounce of faith found to a
ton of the rubbish of reasonings and
anxieties. Pure faith sinks itself into
God, seeks only his will regardless of
apparent success or failure— it works
through the Holy Ghost and lets God .
bring about results. When the soul is
made one - with God by pure faith it
achieves things in a divine way, and in
the divine time, free from anxiety and
free from. the arduous struggles of the
natural mind. Perfect faith sees God in
a failure, or a smash up, where other
people regard everything as a total
wreck. Thus all through life anxiety
sprouts from the creature and makes its
home in human reason and calculations,
but faith springs up in union with God,
anchors fast to the eternal will, feeds
itself on God's unchanging love, keeps '
tranquil in the all- hidden presence of
God, has no interest in the outcome of
anything except the interest of God, and
scks in all things to be one with ' Testis
Christ, and in that union anxiety call
find no foot- hold.— Selead.